1 Samuel 15:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

Repenteth me

Jonah 4:2

Hath not performed

1 Samuel 15:3

1 Samuel 13:13

It grieved

Romans 9:1

He cried

General references

Numbers 12:13

Psalm 119:136

Bible References

Repenteth me

And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.

And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

Hath not performed

Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

It grieved

And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,

I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

He cried

And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.

General references

And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.