1 Samuel 15:12-15

15:12 Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where ¹  he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left ²  and went down to Gilgal.” ³  15:13 When Samuel came to him, ⁴  Saul said to him, “May the Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

15:14 Samuel replied, “If that is the case, ⁵  then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?” 15:15 Saul said, “They were brought ⁶  from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

[15:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and look.”

[15:12]  ² tn Heb “and he turned and crossed over.”

[15:12]  ³ tc At the end of v. 12 the LXX and one Old Latin ms include the following words not found in the MT: “to Saul. And behold, he was offering as a burnt offering to the Lord the best of the spoils that he had brought from the Amalekites.”

[15:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “to Saul.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn The words “if that is the case” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “they brought them.”