1 Samuel 15:14

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

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13And Samuel came to Saul. And Saul said to him, Blessed be thou of LORD. I have performed the commandment of LORD.

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 LORD thy God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

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Cross References

Psalms 50:16But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,

Jeremiah 2:22For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, says lord LORD.

Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

Romans 3:19Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 15:11-24

Samuel Reproves Saul; Saul Rejected of God. ( b. c. 1065.) 10 Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night. 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. 13… Read the whole commentary →

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