¹³ Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, ^(A)“Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”

¹⁰ Then he said, ^(A)“Blessed are you of the Lord, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than ^(B)at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich.

² And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, and on which you ^(A)put a curse, even saying it in my ears—here is the silver with me; I took it.”

And his mother said, ^(B)“May you be blessed by the Lord, my son!”

¹¹ The Pharisee ^(A)stood and prayed thus with himself, ^(B)‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

¹⁰ So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are ^(A)unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

^11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has ^(B)turned back from following Me, ^(C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it ^(D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

⁹ But Saul and the people ^(A)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.