1 Samuel 28:18

World English Bible (2000)

Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:42 : 42 He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.'"
  • 1 Sam 15:9 : 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
  • 1 Sam 15:20 : 20 Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
  • 1 Sam 15:23-26 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king." 24 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh." 26 Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."
  • 1 Sam 13:9 : 9 Saul said, "Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings." He offered the burnt offering.
  • 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby],
  • Ps 50:21-22 : 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • Jer 48:10 : 10 Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

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  • 1 Sam 15:18-20
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    84%

    18and Yahweh 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 didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

    20Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

  • 1 Sam 28:16-17
    2 verses
    81%

    16Samuel said, "Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

    17Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

  • Num 14:42-43
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    42Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

    43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
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    78%

    2Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

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

  • 1 Sam 28:19
    78%

    19Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."

  • Deut 25:17-19
    3 verses
    77%

    17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

    18how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God.

    19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
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    75%

    13Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

    14But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you."

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    75%

    48He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

  • Exod 17:16
    74%

    16He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    74%

    15Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."

  • 1 Sam 15:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

    7Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

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

  • 1 Sam 15:28
    73%

    28Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

  • Exod 17:8
    73%

    8Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

  • Josh 22:18
    73%

    18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
    73%

    36Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    72%

    43They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    72%

    15but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was against your fathers.

  • 1 Sam 15:26
    72%

    26Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."

  • Deut 8:20
    72%

    20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 28:20
    72%

    20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

  • Deut 28:47
    72%

    47Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16The king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."

  • 1 Sam 15:10
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    10Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,

  • 1 Sam 13:11
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    11Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Kgs 2:43
    72%

    43Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?"

  • 1 Sam 15:23
    72%

    23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."

  • Deut 28:15
    72%

    15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    72%

    14and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    72%

    12because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

  • Jer 42:21
    72%

    21and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

  • 1 Sam 8:18
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    18You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."

  • 1 Sam 24:18
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    18You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.

  • 2 Sam 1:14
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    14David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

  • Deut 28:45
    72%

    45All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:

  • 1 Kgs 13:21
    71%

    21and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

  • Jer 40:3
    71%

    3and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    71%

    8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.

  • Exod 17:13
    71%

    13Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.