13. Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
14. Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
15. Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to the Lord your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”
16. Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”He said to him, “Say on.”
17. Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? the Lord anointed you king over Israel;