1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
KJV
Tulit autem de præda populus oves et boves, primitias eorum quæ cæsa sunt, ut immolet Domino Deo suo in Galgalis.
Vulgate
καὶ ἔλαβεν ὁ λαὸς τῶν σκύλων ποίμνια καὶ βουκόλια τὰ πρῶτα τοῦ ἐξολεθρεύματος, ἐνώπιον Κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐν Γαλγάλοις.
LXX
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.
ASV
וַ/יִּקַּ֨ח הָ/עָ֧ם מֵ/הַ/שָּׁלָ֛ל צֹ֥אן וּ/בָקָ֖ר רֵאשִׁ֣ית הַ/חֵ֑רֶם לִ/זְבֹּ֛חַ לַֽ/יהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖י/ךָ בַּ/גִּלְגָּֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Sam 15:15 — 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 unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
- 1Sam 15:15 — 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 unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
- Eccl 5:1 — Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
- Exod 32:22 — And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
- Isa 58:2 — Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in appr
- Isa 61:8 — For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Prov 21:27 — The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?