Cross references

1 Samuel 15:9

Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

1 Samuel 15:9 BSB
  1. a Or the grown bulls

1 Samuel 15:9 has 5 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Samuel 15:15 (4 votes) and 1 Samuel 15:3 (3 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 14 to Matthew 26.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 15:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”

  2. Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

  3. So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

  4. When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

  5. When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 15:9?

The 10 strongest of 20.