So Saul said, Bring the burnt offering and peace offerings here to me. And he offered the burnt offering.

But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He also has rejected you from being king.

Now therefore, please forgive my sin, and return with me, that I may bow down before Jehovah.

And he said to him, Thus says Jehovah: Because you have sent away out of your hand a man whom I devoted to utter destruction, therefore your soul shall go for his soul, and your people for his people.

Thus Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had transgressed against Jehovah, because he had not kept the Word of Jehovah, and because he asked counsel to seek after a medium.

Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

These things you have done, and I have kept silent; you thought that I was like yourself; but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.