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14 Samuel asked, “Why, then, do I hear cattle mooing and sheep bleating?”

15 Saul answered, “My men took them from the Amalekites. They kept the best sheep and cattle to offer as a sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have destroyed completely.”[a]

16 “Stop,” Samuel ordered, “and I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”

“Tell me,” Saul said.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:15 These animals had been unconditionally dedicated to the Lord and had to be destroyed (see Lv 27.28).

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