Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 15:31

A church father on this verse
“35. For on account of the evil that lay hidden within, he deserved to hear: "The Lord has cast you off from being king." But so that under the pretext of good he might draw others to the truth of that same good, Samuel wished to follow Saul, and saw him worship the Lord. Sometimes even the evils of kings and the great…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2

Source: Septuagint

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31So Samuel turned back after Saul, and he worshiped the Lord.

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29And Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.

30And Saul said, I have sinned; yet honor me, I pray thee, before the elders of Israel, and before my people; and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord thy God.

— 1 Samuel 15:31 —

32And Samuel said, Bring me Agag the king of Amalek: and Agag came to him trembling; and Agag said, Is death thus bitter?

33And Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall thy mother be made childless among women: and Samuel slew Agag before the Lord in Gilgal.

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