3 Now go and Ex. 17:8, 14; Num. 24:20; Deut. 25:17–19attack Amalek, and Deut. 25:19utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ "
9 But Saul and the people 1 Sam. 27:8, 9spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all thatwas good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, Josh. 15:55; 1 Sam. 25:2"Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord."
15 And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; Gen. 14:19; Judg. 17:2; Ruth 3:10; 2 Sam. 2:5for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
22 So Samuel said:
1 Sam. 15:15"Has the Lordasgreat delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, Ps. 50:8, 9; 51:16, 17; (Prov. 21:3; Is. 1:11–17; Jer. 7:22, 23; Mic. 6:6–8; Heb. 10:4–10)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion isas the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness isas iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(Eccl. 5:1; Hos. 6:6; Matt. 5:24; 9:13; 12:7; Mark 12:33)He also has rejected you from being king."