I give you a king in my anger and take away a king in my wrath.

我在怒气中将王赐你，又在烈怒中将王废去。

我在怒气中将王赐给你，又在烈怒中将王废去。

我在怒气中将王赐给你，又在烈怒中将王废去。

我在愤怒中赐给你君王，也在愤怒中废黜他们。

我在忿怒中把王赐给你，又在烈怒中把他废去。

我在怒氣中將王賜你，又在烈怒中將王廢去。

我在怒氣中將王賜給你，又在烈怒中將王廢去。

我在怒氣中將王賜給你，又在烈怒中將王廢去。

我在憤怒中賜給你君王，也在憤怒中廢黜他們。

我在忿怒中把王賜給你，又在烈怒中把他廢去。

我氣忿忿地將王賜了你，又怒烘烘地給廢去。

我怒以王予爾、亦怒而廢之、

爾國之王、我怒而立之、復怒而廢之、

我怒以王賜爾、我怒以王廢之、

So in my anger I gave you a king, and in my wrath I took him away.

So I became angry and gave you a king. Then I took him away from you.

I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

In my anger I gave you kings, and in my fury I took them away.

I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.

I have given thee a king in mine anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

I give you a king in My anger and take away a king in My wrath.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took[ him] away in my wrath.

I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to him,‘ You must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

Then Samuel said: Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.

The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the LORD to carry out his word, which the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents,

“ Now here is the king you’ve chosen, the one you requested. Look, this is the king the LORD has placed over you.

Samaria’s king will disappear like foam on the surface of the water.

But the LORD told him,“ Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshiping other gods.Listen to them, but solemnly warn them and tell them about the customary rights of the king who will reign over them.”

In fact, they are now saying,“ We have no king! For we do not fear the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

Go tell Jeroboam,‘ This is what the LORD God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over my people Israel,tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what is right in my sight.You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to anger me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung me behind your back.Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will wipe out all of Jeroboam’s males, both slave and free, in Israel; I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field, the birds will eat, for the LORD has spoken!’“ As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be given a proper burial because out of the house of Jeroboam something favorable to the LORD God of Israel was found in him.The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who will wipe out the house of Jeroboam. This is the day, yes, even today!For the LORD will strike Israel so that they will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering the LORD.He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”

In the twelfth year of Judah’s King Ahaz, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.But the king of Assyria caught Hoshea in a conspiracy: He had sent envoys to So king of Egypt and had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested him and put him in prison.

Jeroboam said to himself,“ The kingdom might now return to the house of David.If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, King Rehoboam of Judah. They will kill me and go back to the king of Judah.”So the king sought advice. Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people,“ Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”He set up one in Bethel, and put the other in Dan.This led to sin; the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.

The LORD said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.”

The Philistines fought against Israel, and Israel’s men fled from them and were killed on Mount Gilboa.The Philistines pursued Saul and his sons and killed his sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers found him and severely wounded him.Then Saul said to his armor-bearer,“ Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer would not do it because he was terrified. Then Saul took his sword and fell on it.When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that Israel’s men had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. So the Philistines came and settled in them.

When a land is in rebellion, it has many rulers, but with a discerning and knowledgeable person, it endures.