1 Samuel 15:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ When Samuel reached Saul,^[a] Saul greeted him, “The Lord bless you! I have done what the Lord said.”

¹⁴ “Then what,” Samuel asked, “is this bleating of sheep in my ears and mooing of cattle I hear?”

¹⁵ “They were taken from the Amalekites,” Saul said, “because the troops spared the best sheep and cattle in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God. The rest was placed under the ban.”