1 Samuel 15:24

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Summary

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.

I feared

Obeyed

1 Samuel 2:29

Genesis 3:12

Jeremiah 38:5

General references

Genesis 3:12

Bible References

I feared

But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them, but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest judgment;

if I feared a great multitude or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and did not go out of the door?

The fear of man brings a snare, but whosoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be lifted up.

I, even I, am he that comforts you. Who art thou that thou should be afraid of man that is mortal and of the son of man which shall be counted as stubble?

Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.

For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Obeyed

Why do ye trample my sacrifices and my offerings which I have commanded to be offered in my tabernacle and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand, for the king can not do any thing against you.

General references

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.