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Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the LORD’s voice, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:20 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી1 શમુએલ ૧૫:૨૦
શાઉલે શમુએલને કહ્યું, “મેં ઈશ્વરની વાણી માની છે, જે માર્ગે ઈશ્વરે મને મોકલ્યો હતો તે માર્ગે હું ગયો છું. મેં અમાલેકના રાજા અગાગને પકડ્યો છે અને અમાલેકીઓનો સંપૂર્ણ નાશ કર્યો છે.
हिन्दी1 शमूएल १५:२०
शाऊल ने शमूएल से कहा, “निःसन्देह मैंने यहोवा की बात मानकर जिधर यहोवा ने मुझे भेजा उधर चला, और अमालेकियों के राजा को ले आया हूँ, और अमालेकियों का सत्यानाश किया है।

In context

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

19Why then didn’t you obey the LORD’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight?”

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

21But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”

22Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

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