1 Samuel 15
1 Samuel also said to Saul, the LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou to the voice of the words of the LORD.
Et dixit Samuel ad Saul: Me misit Dominus, ut ungerem te in regem super populum eius Israel: nunc ergo audi vocem Domini:
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Recensui quæcumque fecit Amalec Israeli: quomodo restitit ei in via cum ascenderet de Ægypto.
3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Nunc ergo vade, et percute Amalec, et demolire universa eius: non parcas ei, et non concupiscas ex rebus ipsius aliquid: sed interfice a viro usque ad mulierem, et parvulum atque lactentem, bovem et ovem, camelum et asinum.
4 And Saul assembled the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Præcepit itaque Saul populo, et recensuit eos quasi agnos: ducenta millia peditum, et decem millia virorum Iuda.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
Cumque venisset Saul usque ad civitatem Amalec, tetendit insidias in torrente.
6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, withdraw yourselves from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up from Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Dixitque Saul Cinæo: Abite, recedite, atque descendite ab Amalec: ne forte involvam te cum eo. tu enim fecisti misericordiam cum omnibus filiis Israel, cum ascenderent de Ægypto. Et recessit Cinæus de medio Amalec.
7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah, [until] thou comest to Shur, that [is] over against Egypt.
Percussitque Saul Amalec ab Hevila, donec venias ad Sur, quæ est e regione Ægypti.
8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
Et apprehendit Agag regem Amalec vivum: omne autem vulgus interfecit in ore gladii.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all [that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
Et pepercit Saul, et populus Agag, et optimis gregibus ovium et armentorum, et vestibus et arietibus, et universis, quæ pulchra erant, nec voluerunt disperdere ea: quidquid vero vile fuit et reprobum, hoc demoliti sunt.
10 Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,
Factum est autem verbum Domini ad Samuel, dicens:
11 I repent that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.
Pœnitet me quod constituerim Saul regem: quia dereliquit me, et verba mea opere non implevit. Contristatusque est Samuel, et clamavit ad Dominum tota nocte.
12 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 has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
Cumque de nocte surrexisset Samuel, ut iret ad Saul mane, nunciatum est Samueli, eo quod venisset Saul in Carmelum, et erexisset sibi fornicem triumphalem, et reversus transisset, descendissetque in Galgala. Venit ergo Samuel ad Saul, et Saul offerebat holocaustum Domino de initiis prædarum quæ attulerat ex Amalec.
13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said to him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
Et cum venisset Samuel ad Saul, dixit ei Saul: Benedictus tu Domino, implevi verbum Domini.
14 And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Dixitque Samuel: Et quæ est hæc vox gregum, quæ resonat in auribus meis, et armentorum, quam ego audio?
15 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 to the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Et ait Saul: De Amalec adduxerunt ea: pepercit enim populus melioribus ovibus et armentis ut immolarentur Domino Deo tuo, reliqua vero occidimus.
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.
Ait autem Samuel ad Saul: Sine me, et indicabo tibi quæ locutus sit Dominus ad me nocte. Dixitque ei: Loquere.
17 And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thy own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
Et ait Samuel: Nonne cum parvulus esses in oculis tuis, caput in tribubus Israel factus es? unxitque te Dominus in regem super Israel,
18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
et misit te Dominus in viam, et ait: Vade, et interfice peccatores Amalec, et pugnabis contra eos usque ad internecionem eorum.
19 Why 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?
Quare ergo non audisti vocem Domini: sed versus ad prædam es, et fecisti malum in oculis Domini?
20 And Saul said to 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.
Et ait Saul ad Samuelem: Immo audivi vocem Domini, et ambulavi in via per quam misit me Dominus, et adduxi Agag regem Amalec, et Amalec interfeci.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Tulit autem de præda populus oves et boves, primitias eorum quæ cæsa sunt, ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis.
22 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.
Et ait Samuel: Numquid vult Dominus holocausta et victimas, et non potius ut obediatur voci Domini? MELIOR est enim obedientia quam victimæ: et auscultare magis quam offerre adipem arietum.
23 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.
quoniam quasi peccatum ariolandi est, repugnare: et quasi scelus idololatriæ, nole acquiescere. Pro eo ergo quod abiecisti sermonem Domini, abiecit te Dominus ne sis rex.
24 And Saul said to 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.
Dixitque Saul ad Samuelem: Peccavi, quia prævaricatus sum sermonem Domini, et verba tua, timens populum, et obediens voci eorum.
25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
Sed nunc porta, quæso, peccatum meum, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum.
26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
Et ait Samuel ad Saul: Non revertar tecum, quia proiecisti sermonem Domini, et proiecit te Dominus ne sis rex super Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to depart, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
Et conversus est Samuel ut abiret: ille autem apprehendit summitatem pallii eius, quæ et scissa est.
28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, [that is] better than thou.
Et ait ad eum Samuel: Scidit Dominus regnum Israel a te hodie, et tradidit illud proximo tuo meliori te.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.
Porro Triumphator in Israel non parcet, et pœnitudine non flectetur: neque enim homo est ut agat pœnitentiam.
30 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 the LORD thy God.
At ille ait: Peccavi: sed nunc honora me coram senioribus populi mei, et coram Israel, et revertere mecum, ut adorem Dominum Deum tuum.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.
Reversus ergo Samuel secutus est Saulem: et adoravit Saul Dominum.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
Dixitque Samuel: Adducite ad me Agag regem Amalec. Et oblatus est ei Agag pinguissimus, et tremens. Et dixit Agag: Siccine separat amara mors?
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
Et ait Samuel: Sicut fecit absque liberis mulieres gladius tuus, sic absque liberis erit inter mulieres mater tua. Et in frustra concidit eum Samuel coram Domino in Galgalis.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
Abiit autem Samuel in Ramatha: Saul vero ascendit in domum suam in Gabaa
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Et non vidit Samuel ultra Saul usque ad diem mortis suæ: verumtamen lugebat Samuel Saulem, quoniam Dominum pœnitebat quod constituisset eum regem super Israel.
