1 Samuel 15:20

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Summary

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Yea

Have brought

1 Samuel 15:3

General references

Genesis 3:12

Psalm 149:7

Bible References

Yea

When Samuel came to him, Saul said to him, "May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said."

I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

For Job says, 'I am innocent, but God turns away my right.

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

The young man said to him, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?"

But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers -- or even like this tax collector.

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Have brought

So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them. Put them to death -- man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.'"

General references

The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."

in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.