1 Samuel 14:28   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then one of the soldiers told him, "Your father bound the army under a strict oath, saying, 'Cursed be anyone who eats food today!' That is why the men are faint."

1 Samuel 14:33   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then someone said to Saul, "Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood in it." "You have broken faith," he said. "Roll a large stone over here at once."

1 Samuel 14:34   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then he said, "Go out among the men and tell them, 'Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the Lord by eating meat with blood still in it.' " So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.

1 Samuel 14:36   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul said, "Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive." "Do whatever seems best to you," they replied. But the priest said, "Let us inquire of God here."

1 Samuel 14:37   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

So Saul asked God, "Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?" But God did not answer him that day.

1 Samuel 14:38   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul therefore said, "Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.

1 Samuel 14:40   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul then said to all the Israelites, "You stand over there; I and Jonathan my son will stand over here." "Do what seems best to you," they replied.

1 Samuel 14:41   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, "Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault, respond with Thummim." Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared.

1 Samuel 14:43   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." So Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!"

1 Samuel 14:44   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not die, Jonathan."

1 Samuel 14:49   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul's sons were Jonathan, Ishvi and Malki-Shua. The name of his older daughter was Merab, and that of the younger was Michal.

1 Samuel 15:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Then he said to the Kenites, "Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

When Samuel reached him, Saul said, "The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord's instructions."

1 Samuel 15:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Saul answered, "The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord your God, but we totally destroyed the rest."

1 Samuel 15:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

"Enough!" Samuel said to Saul. "Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night." "Tell me," Saul replied.

1 Samuel 15:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Samuel said, "Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.

1 Samuel 15:18   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

And he sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.'

1 Samuel 15:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?"

1 Samuel 15:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal."

1 Samuel 15:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king."

1 Samuel 15:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned. I violated the Lord's command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.

1 Samuel 15:25   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Now I beg you, forgive my sin and come back with me, so that I may worship the Lord."

1 Samuel 15:26   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

But Samuel said to him, "I will not go back with you. You have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you as king over Israel!"