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and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his host was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

וְשֵׁם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁ֤ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

וְקִ֧ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנֵ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

וְעַתָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

וַעֲשֶׂ֥רֶת (וַ) va. “and”

Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

וְאַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

וְהָעָ֜ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַבָּקָ֨ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַמִּשְׁנִ֤ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָמֵ֖ס (וְ) ve. “and”

It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.

וְהִנֵּ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וּמֶ֛ה (וּ) u. “and”וְק֣וֹל (וְ) ve. “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 to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

וְהַבָּקָ֔ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.

וְאַגִּ֣ידָה (וְ) ve. “so”

Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

וְלָ֥מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.

וּבָקָ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”

Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

וּזְבָחִ֔ים (וּ) u. “and”

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.

וְאָ֥וֶן (וְ) ve. “and”וּתְרָפִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.

וְעַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְשׁ֣וּב (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

וְגַם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.

וְנֶ֣גֶד (וְ) ve. “and”וְשׁ֣וּב (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

וְשָׁא֛וּל (וְ) ve. “and”

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וַיהוָ֣ה (וַ) va. “and”