1 Samuel 15:19

Modern

So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

Traditional

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?

Literal

And why did you not listened to the voice of YHWH, and why did you swoop down on the spoil and do the evil in the eyes of YHWH?”

Latin

Quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini: sed versus ad prædam es, et fecisti malum in oculis Domini?

Hebrew

English

So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

After Saul disobeyed God by not completely destroying the Amalekites, God rejected him more strongly than before (see 1 Samuel 13:8–14).

Theme notes and profiles

1 Samuel 14:32
So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it.
Habakkuk 2:9–12
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
2 Chronicles 33:6
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:2
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
2 Chronicles 36:12
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.
2 Timothy 4:10
…because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.