1 Disse Samuel a Saul: Jeová enviou-me para te ungir rei sobre o seu povo, sobre Israel; agora escuta as palavras de Jeová.2 Assim diz Jeová dos exércitos: Observei o que fez Amaleque a Israel, e de que modo se lhe opôs quando saía do Egito.3 Vai e fere a Amaleque, e destrói totalmente a ele e a tudo o que tiver, não lhe perdoes, mas mata homem e mulher, o menino e crianças de mama, boi e ovelha, camelo e jumento.4 Saul convocou o povo e enumerou-os em Telaim, duzentos mil homens de pé, e dez mil homens de Judá.5 Chegou Saul à cidade de Amaleque, e dispôs emboscadas ao longo da torrente.6 Disse Saul aos queneus: Ide, retirai-vos, descei dentre os amalequitas, não suceda que eu vos destrua juntamente com eles, porque vós usastes de misericórdia com todos os filhos de Israel, quando subiam do Egito.7 Saul bateu aos amalequitas desde Havilá no caminho de Sur que está defronte do Egito.8 Tomou vivo a Agague, rei dos amalequitas, e destruiu por completo a todo o povo ao fio da espada.9 Mas Saul e o povo perdoaram a Agague e ao melhor das ovelhas e dos bois, dos animais engordados e dos cordeiros, e a todo o que era bom, não os quiseram destruir totalmente; porém a tudo o que houve de vil e desprezível, isso destruíram.10 Veio a palavra de Jeová a Samuel, dizendo:11 Arrependo-me de ter constituído rei a Saul; porque deixou de me seguir e não cumpriu as minhas ordens. Indignou-se Samuel, e clamou a Jeová toda a noite.12 Levantou-se cedo Samuel para se encontrar com Saul pela manhã. Foi dito a Samuel que veio Saul ao Carmelo, levantou para si um monumento e, voltando, passou e desceu a Gilgal.13 Chegando Samuel a Saul, disse-lhe Saul: Bendito sejas tu de Jeová; já cumpri a ordem de Jeová.14 Samuel perguntou: Que quer dizer, pois, este balido de ovelhas que ressoa nos meus ouvidos, e o mugido de bois que ouço?15 Respondeu Saul: Trouxeram-nos de Amaleque, pois o povo perdoou ao melhor das ovelhas e dos bois, para os sacrificar a Jeová teu Deus; o resto, porém, destruimo-lo totalmente.16 Disse Samuel a Saul: Espera, e permite-me declarar-te o que Jeová me disse esta noite. Respondeu-lhe Saul: Fala.17 Prosseguiu Samuel: Embora pequeno aos teus próprios olhos, não foste feito, porventura, o cabeça das tribos de Israel? Jeová ungiu-te rei sobre Israel,18 enviou-te a esta jornada e disse: Vai, destrói totalmente a estes pecadores, os amalequitas, e peleja contra eles, até que sejam consumidos.19 Por que não obedeceste à voz de Jeová, mas te lançaste ao despojo, e fizeste o mal à vista de Jeová?20 Respondeu Saul a Samuel: Pelo contrário obedeci à voz de Jeová, e fui no caminho pelo qual Jeová me enviou, trouxe a Agague, rei de Amaleque, e destruí totalmente aos amalequitas.21 Mas o povo tomou do despojo, ovelhas e bois, que são as primícias do anátema, para as sacrificar a Jeová teu Deus em Gilgal.22 Disse Samuel: Tem, porventura, Jeová tanto prazer em holocaustos e sacrifícios, quanto tem em que se obedeça à sua voz? Eis que o obedecer é melhor do que o sacrifício, e o atender do que a gordura de carneiros.23 Porque a rebelião é como o pecado da adivinhação, e a obstinação é como a idolatria e os terafins. Porquanto rejeitaste a palavra de Jeová, ele te rejeitou também a ti, para que não sejas rei.24 Disse Saul a Samuel: Pequei, pois transgredi a ordem de Jeová, e as tuas palavras. Tive medo do povo, e obedeci à sua voz.25 Agora perdoa-me o meu pecado, e volta comigo para que eu adore a Jeová.26 Mas Samuel disse a Saul: Não voltarei contigo; porque rejeitaste a palavra de Jeová, e Jeová te rejeitou a ti, para que não sejas rei sobre Israel.27 Ao voltar Samuel as costas para se ir, Saul pegou-lhe pela orla da capa, a qual se rasgou.28 Disse-lhe Samuel: Hoje rasgou de ti Jeová o reino de Israel, e o entregou ao teu próximo, que é melhor do que tu.29 Também o Triunfador de Israel não mentirá nem se arrependerá, porque não é um homem, para que se arrependa.30 Saul disse: Pequei. Contudo honra-me agora diante dos anciãos do meu povo, e diante de Israel, e volta comigo, para que eu adore a Jeová teu Deus.31 Voltando Samuel, seguiu a Saul, e Saul adorou a Jeová.32 Disse Samuel: Trazei-me aqui a Agague, rei dos amalequitas. Agague veio a ele tremendo, e disse: Na verdade se passou a amargura da morte.33 Disse, porém, Samuel: Como a tua espada tem desfilhado a mulheres, assim será desfilhada tua mãe entre as mulheres. Samuel despedaçou a Agague diante de Jeová em Gilgal.34 Depois voltou para Ramá; e Saul foi para sua casa em Gibeá de Saul.35 Samuel não tornou mais a ver Saul até o dia da sua morte, pois teve pena de Saul. Jeová arrependeu-se de ter constituído a Saul rei sobre Israel.

1 And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his People Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the Lord:2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: I how he opposed them in the way when they came up out of Egypt.3 Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.5 And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in the torrent.6 And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart and get ye down from Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec.7 And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which is over against Egypt.8 And he took Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.9 And Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the flocks of sheep and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile and good for nothing, that they destroyed.10 And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying:11 It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and he cried unto the Lord all night.12 And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord out of the choicest of the spoils which he had brought from Amalec.13 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.14 And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?15 And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the herds that they might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain.16 And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak.17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.18 And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast utterly destroyed them.19 Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord.20 And Saul said to Samuel: Yea I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain.21 But the people took of the spoils sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in Galgal.22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch therefore as thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from being king.24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.25 But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord.26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.27 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.28 And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better than thee.29 But the triumpher in Israel will riot spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a mail that he should repent.30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.31 So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.32 And Samuel said: Bring hitherto me Agag the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death separate in this manner?33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he had made him king over Israel.