1 Samuel 15:11

The LORD expresses grief over making Saul king because Saul has turned away and disobeyed; Samuel mourns and prays all night. It reveals both the seriousness of Saul's rebellion and God's relational sorrow over it.

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• 1 Sam 13:13“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
• Gen 6:6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
• Ps 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
• 2 Sam 24:16But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• 1 Sam 15:9Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
• 1 Sam 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• 1 Sam 15:35And to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.
• Jer 9:18Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
• Heb 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
• Jer 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
• Ps 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
• Jer 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
• Ps 110:4The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
• 1 Sam 12:23As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.
• Luke 19:41–44As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
• Ps 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
• Rom 9:1–3I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
• Matt 5:44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
• 1 Kgs 9:6–7But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
• Ps 109:4In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
• Josh 22:16“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?
• Ps 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Matt 24:13But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• Luke 6:12In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
• Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
• Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
• Jer 18:7–10At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
• Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
• Jonah 3:10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

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