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1 Samuel 15:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?” "

1 Samuel 15:14

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12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”

14 Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the LORD your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

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1 Samuel 15:1

"Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the LORD’s words."

1 Samuel 15:2

"The LORD of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt."

1 Samuel 15:3

"Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”"

1 Samuel 15:4

"Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah."

1 Samuel 15:5

"Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley."

1 Samuel 15:6

"Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites."

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