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.

Cross-references · 30

• 1 Sam 13:13And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
• Gen 6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
• Ps 119:136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
• 2 Sam 24:16And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
• 1 Sam 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
• 1 Sam 15:3Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• 1 Sam 15:35And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
• Jer 9:18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
• Heb 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Jer 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
• Ps 78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
• Jer 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Ps 110:4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
• 1 Sam 12:23Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
• Luke 19:41–44And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
• Ps 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Rom 9:1–3I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
• Matt 5:44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
• 1 Kgs 9:6–7But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
• Ps 109:4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
• Josh 22:16Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
• Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
• Matt 24:13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
• Jonah 4:2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
• Zeph 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
• Jer 18:7–10At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
• Amos 7:3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
• Jonah 3:10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

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