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342 First Book of Samuel

21 But the people took of the spoils, sheep and 32 And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag,
oxen, as the firstfruits of those things that were the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to
slain, to offer sacrifice to the Lord their God in him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said:
Galgal. Doth bitter death separate in this manner?
22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire 33 And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made
holocausts and victims, and not rather that the women childless, so shall thy mother be childless
voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obe- among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces
dience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken before the Lord in Galgal.
rather than to offer the fat or rams. 34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but
23 Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.
rebel: and like the crime of idolatry, to refuse 35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day
to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast re- of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for
jected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also Saul, because the Lord repented that he had
rejected thee from being king. made him king over Israel.
24 And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned,
because I have transgressed the commandment
of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, Chapter 16
and obeying their voice.
25 But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt
return with me, that I may adore the Lord. thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from
26 And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and
with thee, because thou hath rejected the word come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethle-
of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from hemite: for I have provided me a king among his
being king over Israel. sons.
27 And Samuel turned about to go away: but 2 And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul
he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it will hear of it, and he will kill me. And the Lord
rent. said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the
28 And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice
rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, to the Lord.
and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better 3 And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and
than thee. I will shew thee what thou art to do, and thou
29 But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to thee.
and will not be moved to repentance: for he is 4 Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to
not a man that he should repent. him. And he came to Bethlehem, and the an-
30 Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour cients of the city wondered, and meeting him,
me now before the ancients of my people, and they said: Is thy coming hither peaceable?
before Israel, and return with me, that I may 5 And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to
adore the Lord thy God. offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul: and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified
Saul adored the Lord. Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.