13. When Samuel finally found him, Saul greeted him cheerfully. “May the lord bless you,” he said. “I have carried out the lord’s command!”
14. “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.
15. “It’s true that the army spared the best of the sheep, goats, and cattle,” Saul admitted. “But they are going to sacrifice them to the lord your God. We have destroyed everything else.”
16. Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! Listen to what the lord told me last night!”“What did he tell you?” Saul asked.
17. And Samuel told him, “Although you may think little of yourself, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? The lord has anointed you king of Israel.
18. And the lord sent you on a mission and told you, ‘Go and completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, until they are all dead.’