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1 Samuel 15:30

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Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

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1 Samuel 15:30 in other translations

Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

1 Samuel 15:30 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 15:30 in context

  1. 28Samuel said to him, “Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
  2. 29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
  3. 30Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”
  4. 31So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
  5. 32Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag the king of the Amalekites here to me!”
    Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”