14Samuel said, |Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?|


In Context

11 |It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.| Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, |Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.|

13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, |You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.|

14 Samuel said, |Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?|

15 Saul said, |They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.|

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, |Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night.| He said to him, |Say on.|

1 Samuel 15:14 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:14But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of oxen which I hear?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel saith, 'And what is the noise of this flock in mine ears — and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:14And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?