19Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?|


In Context

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.|

17 Samuel said, |Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?|

20 Saul said to Samuel, |But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.|

1 Samuel 15:19 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:19Why did you not obey the Lord ? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord ?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:19Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:19Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Jehovah, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:19Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, but didst fall upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of Jehovah?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:19wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:19Why then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:19and why hast thou not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah — and dost fly unto the spoil, and dost do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:19Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly on the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?