And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.(1 Samuel 15:15)

Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.(1 Samuel 15:16)

And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?(1 Samuel 15:17)

And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?(1 Samuel 15:19)

And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.(1 Samuel 15:20)

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.(1 Samuel 15:21)

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1 Samuel 15:18 - Cross Reference

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. (Proverbs 13:21)

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Genesis 15:16)

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? (Job 31:3)

The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. (Numbers 16:38)

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. (Proverbs 10:29)

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. (Genesis 13:13)