15 (A)As the Lord had commanded Moses His servant, so (B)Moses commanded Joshua, and (C)so Joshua did. [a]He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

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  1. Joshua 11:15 Lit. He turned aside from nothing

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law (A)which Moses My servant commanded you; (B)do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may [a]prosper wherever you go.

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  1. Joshua 1:7 have success or act wisely

20 how (A)I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,

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and when the Lord your God delivers (A)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (B)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

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11 (A)Observe what I command you this day. Behold, (B)I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12 (C)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall (D)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (E)cut down their wooden images

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27 For I have not [a]shunned to declare to you (A)the whole counsel of God.

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  1. Acts 20:27 avoided declaring

12 Also (A)the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the leaders, (B)at the word of the Lord.

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Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, (A)“Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

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32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; (A)you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

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“Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess.

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(A)You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

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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.

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(A)He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and (B)utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people (C)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.

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Saul Spares King Agag

15 Samuel also said to Saul, (A)“The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, (B)how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. Now go and (C)attack[a] Amalek, and (D)utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:3 Lit. strike

12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, (A)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.

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42 According to all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel (A)did all the work. 43 Then Moses looked over all the work, and indeed they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, just so they had done it. And Moses (B)blessed them.

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42 (A)“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and (B)pass by justice and the (C)love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

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23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (A)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and (B)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

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19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the [a]spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

20 And Saul said to Samuel, (A)“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 (B)But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

22 So Samuel said:

(C)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (D)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

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  1. 1 Samuel 15:19 plunder

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