09:015:012 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was
           told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set
           him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone
           down to Gilgal.

09:015:013 And Samuel came to Saul:  and Saul said unto him, Blessed be
           thou of the lord:  I have performed the commandment of the
           lord.

09:015:014 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep
           in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

09:015:015 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites:  for
           the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to
           sacrifice unto the lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly
           destroyed.

09:015:016 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what
           the lord hath said to me this night.  And he said unto him, Say
           on.

09:015:017 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight,
           wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the
           lord anointed thee king over Israel?

09:015:018 And the lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
           destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
           until they be consumed.

09:015:019 Wherefore 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?

09:015:020 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
           lord, and have gone the way which the lord sent me, and have
           brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed
           the Amalekites.

09:015:021 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of
           the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to
           sacrifice unto the lord thy God in Gilgal.

09:015:022 And Samuel said, Hath the lord as great delight in burnt
           offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the lord? 
           Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
           the fat of rams.

09:015:023 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
           as iniquity and idolatry.  Because thou hast rejected the word
           of the lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

09:015:024 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned:  for I have
           transgressed the commandment of the lord, and thy words: 
           because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

09:015:025 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with
           me, that I may worship the lord.