3 Now go and strike Amalek and ^edevote to destruction¹ all that they have. Do not spare them, ^fbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

9 ^mBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves¹ and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

13 And Samuel said to Saul, ^t“You have done foolishly. ^uYou have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.