1 Samuel 15:31
New International Version
So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

New Living Translation
So Samuel finally agreed and went back with him, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

English Standard Version
So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

King James Bible
So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

New King James Version
So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

NASB 1995
So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

NASB 1977
So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Samuel returned, following after Saul, and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Then Samuel went back, following Saul, and Saul bowed down to the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Samuel went back, following Saul, and Saul bowed down to the LORD.

American Standard Version
So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Shemueil returned after Shaul, and Shaul worshiped LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So Samuel turned back after Saul, and he worshipped the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Samuel followed Saul back, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord.

English Revised Version
So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Samuel turned and followed Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

Good News Translation
So Samuel went back with him, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

International Standard Version
Samuel returned, following Saul, and Saul worshipped the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So Samuel returned after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
And Samuel turns back after Saul, and Saul bows himself to YHWH;

Majority Standard Bible
So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

New American Bible
And so Samuel returned with him, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

NET Bible
So Samuel followed Saul back, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
So Samuel went back with Saul; and he worshiped the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.

World English Bible
So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And Samuel turneth back after Saul, and Saul boweth himself to Jehovah;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Saul's Confession
30“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.” 31So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD. 32Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”…

Cross References
1 Samuel 15:30
"I have sinned," Saul replied. "Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God."

1 Samuel 15:32
Then Samuel said, "Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites." Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."


Treasury of Scripture

So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

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1 Samuel 15
1. Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek
6. Saul favors the Kenites
7. He spares Agag and the best of the spoil
10. Samuel denounces unto Saul God's rejection of him for his disobedience
24. Saul's humiliation
32. Samuel kills Agag
34. Samuel and Saul part














(31) So Samuel turned again after Saul.--The prophet, after the repeated and pressing request of the king, consents publicly to worship the Lord in his company. There is little doubt but that the principal motive which induced Samuel on this occasion not to withdraw himself from the public thanksgiving was a desire to prevent any disaffection towards the monarchy. His known disapproval of Saul's conduct, and his declining the king's earnest prayer to stay, would probably have been the signal to the discontented spirits in Israel to revolt, under the pretext that such a revolt would be pleasing to the great seer. Such a revolt in those critical times would have been disastrous to the growing prosperity of the chosen people.

It has been well suggested that many blessings came upon the unhappy Saul and the nation over which he ruled in answer to Samuel's intercession on this occasion for him.

The result was what might have been looked for. Saul remained in undiminished power apparently; but the will of God, as declared by His servant Samuel, was slowly, but surely, accomplished. The doom of the reigning family pronounced by the prophet on this momentous occasion was irrevocable.

The story of Israel contained in this book shows how the march of events in solemn procession moved onward, every year bringing the ill-fated rebel king nearer the execution of the stern sentence which his own self-willed conduct had called down on him.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Samuel
שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל (šə·mū·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 8050: Samuel -- 'name of God', a prophet of Israel

went back
וַיָּ֥שָׁב (way·yā·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

with
אַחֲרֵ֣י (’a·ḥă·rê)
Preposition
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

Saul,
שָׁא֑וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

and Saul
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

worshiped
וַיִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ (way·yiš·ta·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate

the LORD.
לַֽיהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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