^10 (A)Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire,^[a] or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer, ¹¹ or who casts spells, consults ghosts and spirits, or seeks oracles from the dead. ¹² Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of such abominations the Lord, your God, is dispossessing them before you.^{(B) 13} You must be altogether sincere with the Lord, your God. ¹⁴ Although these nations whom you are about to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and diviners, the Lord, your God, will not permit you to do so.

¹³ Samuel replied to Saul: “You have acted foolishly! Had you kept the command the Lord your God gave you, the Lord would now establish your kingship in Israel forever; ¹⁴ but now your kingship shall not endure. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart^[a] to appoint as ruler over his people because you did not observe what the Lord commanded you.”^(A)

³ Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban^[a] everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”^(A)

¹¹ I regret having made Saul king, for he has turned from me and has not kept my command. At this Samuel grew angry and cried out to the Lord all night.^(A)

²⁶ But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, because you rejected the word of the Lord and the Lord has rejected you as king of Israel.”^(A)