1 Samuel 15:14

Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

13Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”

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 the LORD your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

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Cross References

Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

Jeremiah 2:22For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD.

Malachi 3:13“Your words have been harsh against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgement of 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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