11 ^a“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has ^bturned back from following Me, ^cand has not performed My commandments.” And it ^dgrieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.  ‡

12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to ^aCarmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.”  ‡

14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; ^afor the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”  ‡