1 Samuel 15:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.

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  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 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.
  • Gen 6:6 : 6 And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.
  • Josh 22:16 : 16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?
  • 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 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.
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 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.
  • 1 Sam 15:9 : 9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 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.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it, 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them. 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end. 3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
  • 1 Sam 15:35-16:1 : 35 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. 1 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.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 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.
  • 1 Kgs 9:6-7 : 6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship: 7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
  • Ps 110:4 : 4 The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 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!
  • Jer 9:18 : 18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 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.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it; 8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed. 9 And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it; 10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
  • Jonah 3:10 : 10 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.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 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.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;
  • Matt 24:13 : 13 But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.

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    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.

    35 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.

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    10 Then the Lord said to Samuel,

  • 1 Sam 15:12-14
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    12 And early in the morning he got up and went to Saul; and word was given to Samuel that Saul had come to Carmel and put up a pillar, and had gone from there down to Gilgal.

    13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.

    14 And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

  • 1 Sam 15:23-31
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    23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

    24 And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.

    25 So now, let my sin have forgiveness, and go back with me to give worship to the Lord.

    26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.

    27 And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away.

    28 And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

    29 And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.

    30 Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.

    31 So Samuel went back after Saul, and Saul gave worship to the Lord.

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    16 And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

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    14 But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

    15 Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.

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    19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?

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