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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记上 15:13

撒母耳到了掃羅那裡,掃羅對他說:“願耶和華賜福給你!我已經執行了耶和華的命令。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agency;   Amalekites;   Falsehood;   Gilgal;   Minister, Christian;   Presumption;   Repentance;   Rulers;   Self-Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Salutations;   Saul, King of Israel;   Social Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Lying;   Salutations;   Self-Righteousness;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gilgal;   Samuel;   Saul, king of israel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Sin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Salutation;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agag;   Amalek, Amalekites;   Ban;   Israel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blessing (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Agag ;   Amalek, Amalekites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mordecai;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Agag;   Amalek;   Saul;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Parashiyyot, the Four;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
撒 母 耳 到 了 扫 罗 那 里 , 扫 罗 对 他 说 : 愿 耶 和 华 赐 福 与 你 , 耶 和 华 的 命 令 我 已 遵 守 了 。

Contextual Overview

10 Then the Lord spoke his word to Samuel: 11 "I am sorry I made Saul king, because he has stopped following me and has not obeyed my commands." Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all night long. 12 Early the next morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul. But the people told Samuel, "Saul has gone to Carmel, where he has put up a monument in his own honor. Now he has gone down to Gilgal." 13 When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said, "May the Lord bless you! I have obeyed the Lord 's commands." 14 But Samuel said, "Then why do I hear cattle mooing and sheep bleating?" 15 Saul answered, "The soldiers took them from the Amalekites. They saved the best sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the Lord your God, but we destroyed all the other animals." 16 Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night." Saul answered, "Tell me." 17 Samuel said, "Once you didn't think much of yourself, but now you have become the leader of the tribes of Israel. The Lord appointed you to be king over Israel. 18 And he sent you on a mission. He said, ‘Go and destroy those evil people, the Amalekites. Make war on them until all of them are dead.' 19 Why didn't you obey the Lord ? Why did you take the best things? Why did you do what the Lord said was wrong?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blessed: 1 Samuel 13:10, Genesis 14:19, Judges 17:2, Ruth 3:10

I have performed: 1 Samuel 15:9, 1 Samuel 15:11, Genesis 3:12, Proverbs 27:2, Proverbs 28:13, Proverbs 30:13, Proverbs 31:31, Luke 17:10, Luke 18:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:11 - smote Numbers 31:14 - wroth Judges 16:15 - when thine 1 Samuel 15:20 - Yea 2 Samuel 14:32 - if there Psalms 36:1 - The transgression Proverbs 16:2 - the ways Proverbs 30:12 - that are Jeremiah 2:23 - How canst Jeremiah 48:10 - Cursed Matthew 25:44 - when Luke 15:29 - Lo Luke 18:12 - fast

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."
Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , what can you give me? I have no son, so my slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord . And the Lord accepted Abram's faith, and that faith made him right with God.
Genesis 15:7
God said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you out of Ur of Babylonia so that I could give you this land to own."
Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will own this land?"
Genesis 15:11
Later, large birds flew down to eat the animals, but Abram chased them away.
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he was asleep, a very terrible darkness came.
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
Genesis 17:8
You live in the land of Canaan now as a stranger, but I will give you and your descendants all this land forever. And I will be the God of your descendants."
Exodus 1:11
So the Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They put slave masters over them, who forced the Israelites to build the cities Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Samuel came to Saul,.... At Gilgal:

and Saul said unto him, blessed be thou of the Lord; signifying that he had abundant reason to bless the Lord on his account, not only that he had anointed him king, but had sent him on such an errand, in which he had succeeded so well, and it was a pleasure to him that he might report it to him:

I have performed the commandment of the Lord; either he was really ignorant that he had done amiss; and thought that his sparing Agag, when he had destroyed all the rest, and reserving some of the best of the cattle for sacrifice, could not be interpreted a breach of the orders given him; or if he was conscious he had broken the commandment of the Lord, this he said to prevent Samuel's reproof of him, and to sooth him with flattering words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gilgal being within 15 miles of Ramah, Samuel might easily have come from Ramah that morning. Self-will and rashness had hitherto been Saul’s chief faults. He now seems to add falsehood and hypocrisy.


 
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