LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
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LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:32-33 ESV
Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:31 ESV
So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:30 ESV
Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:28-29 ESV
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:27 ESV
As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:26 ESV
And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:24-25 ESV
Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the Lord."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:22-23 ESV
And Samuel said, "Has the Lord 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. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:20-21 ESV
And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:17-19 ESV
And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, 'Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?"
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 15:12 ESV
And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 14:52 ESV
There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 13:8-14 ESV
As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.' So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering."And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you."He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 12:21-25 ESV
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 12:15-16 ESV
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 12:14 ESV
If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 11:15 ESV
So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 11:13 ESV
But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel."
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 11:6 ESV
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Jul 25
LeAnn Kay Noblitt-Weir
highlighted 1 Samuel 10:18-19 ESV
And he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands."
Jul 25