1 Samuel 15:21-23
Read 1 Samuel 15 in full →21“But athe people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.” 22And Samuel said, “aHas Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrificesAs in obeying the voice of Yahweh?Behold, bto obey is better than sacrifice,And to heed than the fat of rams.
23“For rebellion is as the sin of adivination,And insubordination is as bwickedness and idolatry.Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh,cHe has also rejected you from being king.”