Sermon Tone Analysis

15 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anointf you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekitesg for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totallyh destroya all that belongs to them.

Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

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27 As Samuel turned to leave, Saul caught hold of the hem of his robe,f and it tore.g

28 Samuel said to him, “The LORD has tornh the kingdomi of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors—to one better than you.j

29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not liek or changel his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”

22 But Samuel replied:

“Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the LORD?

To obey is better than sacrifice,x

and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,y

and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.

Because you have rejectedz the word of the LORD,

he has rejected you as king.”

13 When Samuel reached him, Saul said, “The LORD bless you!

I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”

10 Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: 11 “I regreto that I have made Saul king, because he has turnedp away from me and has not carried out my instructions.”q

Samuel was angry,r and he cried out to the LORD all that night.

7 Then Saul attacked the Amalekitesj all the way from Havilah to Shur,k near the eastern border of Egypt.

8 He took Agagl king of the Amalekites alive,m and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.

9 But Saul and the army sparedn Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calvesb and lambs—everything that was good.

These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

9 But

4 So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah. 5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

6 Then he said to the Kenites,i “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.”

So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

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