1 Samuel 15

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.

Te Pakanga ki ngā Amareki

1 Nā, ka mea a Hamuera ki a Haora, "I tonoa mai ahau e Ihowā ki te whakawahi i a koe hei kīngi mō tāna iwi mō Īharaira; nā, whakarongo mai ki te reo o ngā kupu a Ihowā. 2 Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā o ngā mano: ‘E whakaaro ana ahau ki tā Amareke i mea ai ki a Īharaira, ki tāna whanganga i a ia i te ara i tōna haerenga mai i Īhipa. 3 Nā, tīkina, patua a Amareke, whakangaromia rawatia ā rātou mea katoa, kaua hoki rātou e tohungia; engari whakamatea ngātahitia te tāne me te wahine te pōtiki me te mea ngote ū, te kau me te hipi, te kāmera me te kāihe.’ "

4 Nā, ka huihuia te iwi e Haora, ā, taua ana e ia ki Teraimi, e rua rau mano, he hunga haere i raro, me ngā tāngata hoki o Hūrā, kotahi tekau mano. 5 Nā, ko te haerenga atu o Haora ki te pā o Amareke, ā, whakatakoto pehipehi ana i roto i te awaawa. 6 I mea hoki a Haora ki ngā Keni, "Whakatika, mawehe atu, haere ki raro i roto i ngā Amareki, kei hunā tahitia koe e ahau me rātou; i puta hoki tā koutou atawhai ki ngā tamariki katoa a Īharaira i tō rātou haerenga mai i Īhipa." Heoi, ka mawehe ngā Keni i roto i a Amareki.

7 Nā, tukitukia ana e Haora ngā Amareki i Hāwira atu ā tae noa koe ki Huru, ki te ritenga atu o Īhipa. 8 Hopukia oratia ana hoki e ia a Akaka kīngi o Amareke, ko te iwi katoa hoki i whakangaromia rawatia e ia ki te mata o te hoari. 9 Otiia i tohungia e Haora rātou ko te iwi a Akaka, me ngā mea papai o ngā hipi, o ngā kau, o ngā mea mōmona hoki, me ngā reme, me ngā mea pai katoa, kīhai hoki i aro ki te whakangaro i a rātou; engari ngā mea e whakaparahakotia ana, e rukea ana, ko ēnā a rātou i whakangaro ai.

Ka Whakaparahako a Haora e Ihowā

10 Kātahi ka puta te kupu a Ihowā ki a Hamuera, ka mea: 11 "Kua puta kē ōku whakaaro i meinga ai e ahau a Haora hei kīngi; kua hoki atu hoki ia i te whai i ahau, ā, kīhai hoki i whakamana i āku kupu." Nā, ka oho te riri i a Hamuera; ā, pau katoa taua pō i a ia e tangi ana ki a Ihowā.

12 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Hamuera i te ata ki te whakatau i a Haora; ā, ka kōrerotia ki a Hamuera, ka meatia, "I tae mai a Haora ki Karamere, nā, whakatūria ana e ia he tohu māna, ā, haere āwhio atu ana, kua pahemo atu, kua riro ki raro, ki Kirikara."

13 Nā, ka tae atu a Hamuera ki a Haora, ā, ka mea a Haora ki a ia, "Kia manaakitia koe e Ihowā, kua whakamanā e ahau te kupu a Ihowā."

14 Nā, ka mea a Hamuera, "He aha koia tēnei tangi o ngā hipi i roto nei i ōku taringa, me te tangi o ngā kau e rongo nei ahau?"

15 Anō rā ko Haora, "He mea mau mai e rātou i ngā Amareki; i tohungia hoki e te iwi ngā mea papai o ngā hipi, o ngā kau, hei mea patunga tapu ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua; ā, ko te toenga, whakangaromia iho e mātou."

16 Kātahi ka mea a Hamuera ki a Haora, "Kāti! Kia kōrerotia e ahau ki a koe tā Ihowā i mea ai ki ahau i tēnei pō."

Anō rā ko tērā, "Kōrero."

17 Ā, ka mea a Hamuera, "I a koe e iti ana ki tōu whakaaro, kīhai ianei koe i meinga hei upoko mō ngā iwi o Īharaira, i whakawahia e Ihowā hei kīngi mō Īharaira? 18 Nā, ka tono a Ihowā i a koe kia haere, ka mea, ‘Tīkina, whakangaromia te hunga hara, ngā Amareki, whawhai hoki ki a rātou ā poto noa rātou.’ 19 He aha koe tē whakarongo ai ki te reo o Ihowā, i aurara atu ai ki ngā taonga parakete, i mahi ai i te kino i te tirohanga a Ihowā?"

20 Nā, ka mea a Haora ki a Hamuera, "Inā, i whakarongo anō ahau ki te reo o Ihowā, i haere i te ara i tonoa ai ahau e Ihowā, kua kawea mai anō hoki e ahau a Akaka kīngi o Amareke; ko ngā Amareki anō hoki, whakangaromia iho e ahau. 21 Nā te iwi hoki i tango ētahi o ngā taonga, o ngā hipi, o ngā kau, ngā mea tino papai o ngā mea e whakangaromia ana hei mea patunga tapu ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, ki Kirikara."

22 Anō rā ko Hamuera:

"Ki tā Ihowā, he pērā rānei te āhuareka

o ngā tahunga tinana, o ngā patunga tapu,

me te whakarongo ki te reo o Ihowā?

Nanā, pai atu te whakarongo i te patunga tapu,

te ngākau mahara i te ngako o ngā hipi toa.

23 Rite tonu hoki te tutū ki te hara mākutu;

te whakatuturi ki te kino, ki te karakia whakapakoko.

He whakaparahako nāu ki te kupu a Ihowā,

ka whakaparahako hoki ia ki a koe hei kīngi."

24 Nā, ka kī a Haora ki a Hamuera, "Kua hara ahau, i ahau i takahi nei i te kupu a Ihowā, i āu kupu anō hoki; i wehi hoki ahau i te iwi, i whakarongo ki tō rātou reo. 25 Tēnā rā, whakarērea noatia iho tōku hara, kia hoki atu tāua, kia koropiko ai ahau ki a Ihowā."

26 Anō rā ko Hamuera ki a Haora, "E kore ahau e hoki tahi tāua; he mea hoki kua whakaparahako koe ki te kupu a Ihowā, ā, kua whakaparahako a Ihowā ki a koe hei kīngi mō Īharaira."

27 Ā, i te tahuritanga o Hamuera ki te haere, ka mau tērā ki te pito o tōna kākahu, ā, kua pakaru. 28 Nā, ka mea a Hamuera ki a ia, "Kua haea mai e Ihowā ināianei tōu kīngitanga i roto i a Īharaira, kua hoatu ki tōu hoa e pai atu ana i a koe. 29 E kore anō hoki te Kaha o Īharaira e teka; e kore anō hoki e puta kē ōna whakaaro; nō te mea ehara ia i te tangata e puta kē ai ōna whakaaro."

30 Anō rā ko tērā, "Kua hara ahau; otiia whakahōnoretia ahau āianei i te aroaro o ngā kaumātua o tōku iwi, i te aroaro o Īharaira, kia hoki tahi tāua, kia koropiko ai ahau ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua." 31 Heoi, hoki ana a Hamuera i muri i a Haora, ā, karakia ana a Haora ki a Ihowā.

32 Kātahi a Hamuera ka mea, "Kawea mai ki ahau a Akaka kīngi o Amareke."

Nā, ka āta hīkoi a Akaka ki a ia. Ā, ka mea a Akaka, "He pono kua pahemo kē te ngau kino a te mate."

33 Anō rā ko Hamuera,

"Nā tāu hoari i kore ai ngā uri o ngā wāhine,

ka pēnā anō tōu whaea te urikore i roto i ngā wāhine."

Nā, hāua iho a Akaka e Hamuera i te aroaro o Ihowā i Kirikara.

34 Kātahi ka haere a Hamuera ki Rama; ko Haora ia i haere ki runga ki tōna whare, ki Kipea o Haora. 35 Kīhai hoki a Haora i tirotirohia e Hamuera i muri iho ā taea noatia te rā i mate ai ia; heoi tangihia ana a Haora e Hamuera. I puta kē anō hoki ngā whakaaro o Ihowā i meinga ai e ia a Haora hei kīngi mō Īharaira.