1 Samuel 15

The Lord Rejects Saul as king

Saul was given specific instructions, through Samuel, to utterly destroy the Amalekites (vv. 1-3). Saul and his men smote the Amalekites but he did not utterly destroy them, as God had commanded (vv. 4-7). He spared Agag, the king, and kept the best of the spoil …