¹⁷ Is today not the ^(A)wheat harvest? ^(B)I will call to the Lord, and He will send thunder and ^(C)rain, that you may perceive and see that ^(D)your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking a king for yourselves.”

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for ^(A)they have not rejected you, but ^(B)they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

Honor Is Not Fitting for a Fool

⁹ And Samuel took a ^(A)suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then ^(B)Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. ¹⁰ Now as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. ^(C)But the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel.

^16 [a]Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. ^(A)The effective, ^[b]fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ¹⁷ Elijah was a man ^(B)with a nature like ours, and ^(C)he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed ^(D)again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Even if ^(B)Moses and ^(C)Samuel stood before Me, My ^[a]mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: