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Daily Bible Reading 03 April 2022

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1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NKJV) So Samuel said: "Has 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 heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king."

15:9–35. When Saul saw the fatness of the Amalekite sheep and cattle and when he considered the enhancement of his own glory and prestige in bringing back Agag, king of Amalek, as a prisoner, he could not resist returning them as public exhibits of his leadership (v. 9). That this was Saul's intent is clear from verse 12, which speaks of Saul's erecting a monument to his own honor at Carmel (in Judah, not the Carmel on the upper Mediterranean coast). When accosted by Samuel (v. 14), Saul tried to justify his disobedience by claiming that the animals were brought as sacrifices to the Lord (vv. 13, 15), and were brought because of the insistence of the soldiers (vv. 20–21). But Samuel responded with a statement of principle that is timeless in its application: To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams (v. 22). In addition to disobeying, Saul was guilty of rebellion … arrogance, and rejecting God's word (v. 23).^[1]

^[1] Eugene H. Merrill, "1 Samuel," in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 447.

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