SHEMU'EL also said unto El-Sha'ul, Yahuah sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Yashar'el: now therefore hearken you unto the voice of the words of Yahuah.
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth, I remember את that which Amaleq did to Yashar'el, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Mitsrayim.
Now go and smite Amaleq, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
And Sha'ul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Tela'iym, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Yahudah.
And Sha'ul came to a city of Amaleq, and laid wait in the valley.
And Sha'ul said unto the Qeyniyiym, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amaleqiym, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to all the children of Yashar'el, when they came up out of Mitsrayim. So the Qeyniyiym departed from among the Amaleqiym.
And Sha'ul smote the Amaleqiym from Chaviylah until you come to Shur, that is over against Mitsrayim.
And he took Agag the king of the Amaleqiym alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Then came the Word of Yahuah unto El-Shemu'el, saying,
It grieves me that I have set up Sha'ul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Shemu'el; and he cried unto El-Yahuah all night.
And when Shemu'el rose early to meet Sha'ul in the morning, it was told Shemu'el, saying, Sha'ul came to Karmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
And Shemu'el came to El-Sha'ul: and Sha'ul said unto him, Blessed be you of Yahuah: I have performed the commandment of Yahuah.
And Shemu'el said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
And Sha'ul said, They have brought them from the Amaleqiym: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto Yahuah Elohayka; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Then Shemu'el said unto El-Sha'ul, Stay, and I will tell you את what Yahuah has said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
And Shemu'el said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Yashar'el, and Yahuah anointed you king over Yashar'el?
And Yahuah sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amaleqiym, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Wherefore then did you not obey the voice of Yahuah, but did fly upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of Yahuah?
And Sha'ul said unto El-Shemu'el, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of Yahuah, and have gone the way which Yahuah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amaleq, and have utterly destroyed the Amaleqiym.
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto Yahuah Elohayka in Gilgal.
And Shemu'el said, Has Yahuah as great delight in ascending smoke offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahuah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Yahuah, he has also rejected you from being king.
And Sha'ul said unto El-Shemu'el, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahuah, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
Now therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahuah.
And Shemu'el said unto El-Sha'ul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the Word of Yahuah, and Yahuah has rejected you from being king over Yashar'el.
And as Shemu'el turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
And Shemu'el said unto him, Yahuah has rent the kingdom of Yashar'el from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you.
And also the Strength of Yashar'el will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Yashar'el, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahuah Elohayka.
So Shemu'el turned again after Sha'ul; and Sha'ul worshipped Yahuah.
Then said Shemu'el, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amaleqiym. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
And Shemu'el said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Shemu'el hewed Agag in pieces before Yahuah in Gilgal.
Then Shemu'el went to Ramah; and Sha'ul went up to his house to Giv'ah of Sha'ul.
And Shemu'el came no more to see Sha'ul until the day of his death: nevertheless Shemu'el mourned for El-Sha'ul: and Yahuah repented that he had made Sha'ul king over Yashar'el.