1 Samuel 15

Samuel manda a Saul destruir os amalequitas

1 Disse Samuel a Saul: *1Sm 9.16Jeová 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 *Êx 17.8-16;Nm 24.20;Dt 25.17-19o que fez Amaleque a Israel e de que modo se lhe opôs quando saía do Egito. 3 Vai, e fere a Amaleque, e *Nm 24.20;Dt 20.16-18;Js 6.17-21destrói totalmente a ele e a tudo o que tiver; não lhe perdoes, mas *1Sm 22.19mata homem e mulher, o menino e crianças de mama, boi e ovelha, camelo e jumento.

4 Saul convocou o povo e enumerou-os em *Js 15.24Telaim: 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 *Jz 1.16;4.11queneus: Ide, retirai-vos, descei dentre os amalequitas; não suceda que eu vos destrua juntamente com eles, porque *Êx 18.9-10,19;Nm 10.29-32vós usastes de misericórdia com todos os filhos de Israel, quando subiam do Egito. 7 *1Sm 14.48Saul bateu os amalequitas *Gn 16.7;25.17-18desde Havilá, no caminho de *1Sm 27.8;Êx 15.22Sur que está defronte do Egito. 8 Tomou vivo a *Nm 24.7;Et 3.1Agague, rei dos amalequitas, e *1Sm 27.8;30.1;2Sm 8.12destruiu por completo a todo o povo ao fio da espada. 9 Mas Saul e o povo *1Sm 15.3,15,19perdoaram a Agague e ao melhor das ovelhas, e dos bois, e dos animais engordados, e dos cordeiros, e a todo o que era bom e não os quiseram destruir totalmente; porém a tudo o que houve de vil e desprezível, isso destruíram.

Deus manda Samuel repreender a Saul

10 Veio a palavra de Jeová a Samuel, dizendo: 11 *Gn 6.6-7;Êx 32.14;2Sm 24.16Arrependo-me de ter constituído rei a Saul, porque *1Rs 9.6-7deixou de me seguir e não cumpriu as minhas ordens. Indignou-se Samuel e *Êx 32.11-13;Lc 6.12clamou 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 *1Sm 25.2;Js 15.55Carmelo, e levantou para si um monumento, e, voltando, passou, e desceu a *1Sm 13.13-14Gilgal. 13 Chegando Samuel a Saul, disse-lhe Saul: *Gn 14.19;2Sm 2.5Bendito sejas tu de Jeová! Já cumpri a ordem de Jeová. 14 Samuel perguntou: *Êx 32.21-24Que 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 *1Sm 15.9,21;Gn 3.12-13;Êx 32.22-23o povo perdoou ao melhor das ovelhas e dos bois, para os sacrificar a Jeová, teu Deus; o resto, porém, destruímo-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: *1Sm 9.21;10.22Embora 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: *1Sm 15.3Vai, 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 *1Sm 14.32te lançaste ao despojo e fizeste o mal à vista de Jeová? 20 Respondeu Saul a Samuel: Pelo contrário, *1Sm 15.13obedeci à voz de Jeová, e fui no caminho pelo qual Jeová me enviou, e trouxe a Agague, rei de Amaleque, e destruí totalmente os amalequitas. 21 Mas o *1Sm 15.15;Êx 32.22-23povo tomou do despojo ovelhas e bois, que são as primícias do anátema, para as sacrificar a Jeová, teu Deus, em Gilgal. 22 Disse Samuel: *Sl 40.6-8;51.16-17;Is 1.11-15;Mq 6.6-8Tem, porventura, Jeová tanto prazer em holocaustos e sacrifícios, quanto tem em que se obedeça à sua voz? Eis que *Jr 7.22-23;Os 6.6;Mc 12.33o 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 *Dt 18.10adivinhação, e a obstinação é como a idolatria e os *Gn 31.19,34terafins. Porquanto rejeitaste a palavra de Jeová, *1Sm 13.14ele te rejeitou também a ti, para que não sejas rei.

24 Disse Saul a Samuel: *Nm 22.34;2Sm 12.13;Sl 51.4Pequei, pois *Pv 29.25;Is 51.12-13transgredi a ordem de Jeová e as tuas palavras. Tive medo do povo e obedeci à sua voz. 25 Agora, *Êx 10.17perdoa-me o meu pecado e volta comigo para que eu adore a Jeová. 26 Mas Samuel disse a Saul: Não voltarei contigo, porque *1Sm 13.14;16.1rejeitaste 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, *1Rs 11.30-31Saul pegou-lhe pela orla da capa, a qual se rasgou. 28 Disse-lhe Samuel: *1Sm 28.17-18Hoje, rasgou de ti Jeová o reino de Israel e o entregou ao teu próximo, que é melhor do que tu. 29 Também o *1Cr 29.11;Sl 18.1-2Triunfador de Israel *Nm 23.19;Ez 24.14não mentirá, nem se arrependerá, porque não é um homem, para que se arrependa. 30 Saul disse: Pequei. Contudo, *Jo 12.43honra-me, agora, diante dos anciãos do meu povo e diante de Israel e volta comigo, *Is 29.13para que eu adore a Jeová, teu Deus. 31 Voltando Samuel, seguiu a Saul, e Saul adorou a Jeová.

Samuel mata a Agague

32 Disse Samuel: Trazei-me aqui Agague, rei dos amalequitas. Agague veio a ele, tremendo, e disse: Na verdade, se passou a amargura da morte. 33 Disse, porém, Samuel: *Gn 9.6;Jz 1.7;Mt 7.2Como 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 *1Sm 7.17Ramá; e Saul foi para sua casa em *1Sm 11.4Gibeá de Saul. 35 *1Sm 19.24Samuel não tornou mais a ver Saul até o dia da sua morte, pois *1Sm 16.1teve pena de Saul. Jeová arrependeu-se de ter constituído a Saul rei sobre Israel.

1 Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words. 2 Yahweh 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. 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.’"

4 Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley. 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.

7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt. 8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

10 Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying, 11 "It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

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 Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh."

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 Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night."

He said to him, "Say on."

17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel; 18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?"

20 Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal."

22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.*15:23 teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property. Because you have rejected Yahweh’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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh."

26 Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh 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. 28 Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you. 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

30 Then he said, "I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."

31 So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh. 32 Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!"

Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

33 Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!" Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.