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1 Samuel 15:25 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.” "
1 Samuel 15:25
Verse in Context
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23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the LORD’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.”
26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the LORD’s word, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
27 As Samuel turned around to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
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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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