GOD in the Old Testament - 1 Samuel - Part 6

1 Samuel 13:13-14

    "You have done a foolish thing," Samuel said. "You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. but now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command."

[see all 1 Samuel 13] 

 

1 Samuel 14:15  

    Then panic struck the whole [Philistine] army--those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding parties--and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.

 

1 Samuel 14:18  

    Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God." (At that time it was with the Israelites.)

 

1 Samuel 14:36-37  

    Saul said, "Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive."

    "Do whatever seems best to you," they replied.

    "But the priest said, "Let us inquire of God here."

    So Saul asked God, "Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?" But God did not answer him that day.

 

1 Samuel 14:41-45  

    Then Saul prayed to the LORD, the God of Israel. "Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or in my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault, respond with Thummin." Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared. Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son." And Jonathan was taken.

    Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done."

    So Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!"

    Saul said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not die, Jonathan."

    But the men said to Saul, "Should Jonathan die--he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help." So the men rescued Jonathan and he was not put to death.

[see all 1 Samuel 14]

 

1 Samuel 15:14-15  

    But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle I hear?"

    Saul answered, "The soldiers brought them from the Amelekites; they spared the best of the sheep and the cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but we totally destroyed the rest." 

 

1 Samuel 15:21  

"The soldiers took the sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal." 

 

1 Samuel 15:30  

    Saul replied, "I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel; come back with me, so I may worship the LORD your God." 

[see all 1 Samuel 15] 

 

[brackets are mine] 

 

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