1 Samuel 15:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 13:13 : 13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
  • Gen 6:6 : 6 ¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
  • Josh 22:16 : 16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
  • 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  • 1 Sam 15:9 : 9 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.
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, ‹If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things› [which belong] ‹unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.› 43 ‹For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,› 44 ‹And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.›
  • Rom 9:1-3 : 1 ¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • Heb 10:38 : 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
  • 1 Sam 15:35-16:1 : 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. 1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
  • 1 Kgs 9:6-7 : 6 [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
  • Ps 109:4 : 4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.
  • Ps 110:4 : 4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Ps 119:136 : 136 ¶ Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 ¶ Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  • Jer 9:18 : 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
  • Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
  • Jer 18:7-9 : 7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy [it]; 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. 9 And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it]; 10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
  • Amos 7:3 : 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
  • Jonah 3:10 : 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not.
  • Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 ‹But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;›
  • Matt 24:13 : 13 ‹But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.›

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    34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

    35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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  • 1 Sam 15:12-14
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    12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

    13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

    14 And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

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    23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

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    25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

    26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

    27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

    28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.

    29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.

    30 Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

    31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

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    16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

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    1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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