• 1 Samuel 15:24

    And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

  • 1 Samuel 15:25

    Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

  • 1 Samuel 15:26

    And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

  • 1 Samuel 15:27

    And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

  • 1 Samuel 15:28

    And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

  • 1 Samuel 15:29

    And also the Strengthc of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

  • 1 Samuel 15:30

    Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

  • 1 Samuel 15:31

    So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

  • 1 Samuel 15:32

    Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

  • 1 Samuel 15:33

    And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

  • 1 Samuel 15:34

    Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

  • 1 Samuel 15:35

    And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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