1 Samuel 15:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

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  • 1 Sam 15:15 : 15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
  • Exod 32:22-23 : 22 Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are bent on mischief. 23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 15:14-15
    2 verses
    86%

    14And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

    15And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    7And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, which is opposite Egypt.

    8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

    9But 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 were not willing to utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

    10Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 15:18-20
    3 verses
    78%

    18And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

    19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

    20And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, 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.

  • 1 Sam 14:32
    78%

    32The people rushed on the spoil, took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.

  • 1 Sam 11:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."

    15And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal, and there they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

  • 1 Sam 14:34
    75%

    34Then Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Bring every man his ox and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So all the people brought every man his ox with him that night and slaughtered them there.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    74%

    48He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.

  • 2 Chr 15:11
    73%

    11And they offered to the LORD at the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2Thus says the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.

    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • 1 Sam 15:22
    72%

    22And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

  • 1 Sam 13:4
    72%

    4And all Israel heard that Saul had struck a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel was in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together to Saul at Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 13:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines gathered at Michmash,

    12Therefore I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD; I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

  • Deut 20:14
    72%

    14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 1 Sam 13:9
    72%

    9And Saul said, Bring here a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.

  • 1 Sam 11:7
    71%

    7And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territories of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, "Whosoever does not come after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

  • Num 31:11
    71%

    11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

  • 1 Chr 29:21
    71%

    21And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD, on the next day after that day, even a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    71%

    15They also attacked the tents of cattle and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 26:27
    70%

    27Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 14:30
    70%

    30How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    70%

    20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

  • 1 Sam 31:11
    70%

    11When the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

  • 1 Sam 13:7
    70%

    7And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    70%

    12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa:

  • 2 Sam 21:2
    70%

    2So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites; and the Israelites had sworn to them. Yet Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for Israel and Judah.)

  • 1 Sam 14:36
    69%

    36Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man among them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here."

  • Deut 3:7
    69%

    7But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities, we took as plunder for ourselves.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    69%

    21And they took away their animals: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

  • Josh 8:27
    69%

    27Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

  • 1 Sam 10:8
    69%

    8And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice peace offerings: seven days you shall wait, till I come to you, and show you what you shall do.

  • 1 Sam 15:31-33
    3 verses
    69%

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

    32Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately, and Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

    33And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 15:5
    69%

    5And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.

  • Deut 2:35
    69%

    35Only the cattle we took for ourselves as spoil, and the plunder of the cities which we took.

  • Num 25:2
    69%

    2And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    69%

    5And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul said, "What troubles the people, that they weep?" And they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.

  • Judg 21:11
    69%

    11And this is what you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.

  • 1 Chr 10:11
    69%

    11And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

  • Num 31:26
    69%

    26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation;

  • Deut 13:16
    69%

    16And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every bit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.