David Page #2

Over this next ridge.

My God.

Fetch me a calf.

I'll kill it as a sacrifice.

Very well, uncle.

Father, be patient. Wait for Samuel.

If he's not here to speak to God for me...

... I'll have to take care

of the matter myself.

Take the animal and burn it.

- Can't we share in the meat, my lord?

- Burn it. Bring me the ashes.

Saul.

What are you doing?

I'm making a sacrifice.

My army's been bled by deserters.

The Philistines are massing

in great numbers.

You were not here to speak on my behalf.

You were told to wait.

I had to do something.

You've not obeyed

the commandments of the Lord God.

He would have established

your kingdom forever.

Samuel.

Samuel, wait.

Whatever the Lord asks of me,

I'll do it.

A few miles south of here,

there is a camp of Amalekites.

Since we are a nation, they are

the most brutal enemies of Israel.

Their leader, Agag,

is a vicious murderer...

... a man of evil.

God wants you to remove them.

Jonathan!

Fetch my armor.

We march at once.

Fetch the armor!

Ready the spears!

And when I win this battle...

... will I be restored in the eyes of God?

Do not even ask.

Simply do as God commands.

Destroy the Amalekites completely, Saul.

Men, women, children, cattle, everything.

Great king, you have the field

and crushed my army.

Surely the bitterness of death is past.

Why is this man still alive?

Why have his cattle been spared?

My men are hungry. They need meat.

Agag is worth more

to me alive than dead.

Trust me, Samuel. It's for the best.

My God.

O my God.

I repent that I have made Saul king.

He has turned back from following me...

... and has not performed

my commandments.

Samuel...

... greetings.

- Stop.

I'll tell you what God has said.

Say on.

When you were little

in your own eyes...

... were you not made king of all Israel?

- I was.

And all God asked was that

you obey his commands.

Instead, you're as rebellious

as some heathen witch.

You reject the Lord.

Now he'll reject you and your kingdom.

Samuel...

... if I've sinned,

it was to feed my army.

All right. All right, I've sinned.

But, Samuel, help me, please. Help me.

Help me make this right with God.

Together. Together we'll make

a burnt offering.

You think God cares

about burnt offerings?

Or does he care that

his servant obey his word?

You cannot bargain

with the God of Israel.

As your sword

has made women childless...

... so shall your mother be childless.

No man has been given

what you have been given.

To have handled it so recklessly...

- You go too far.

- No, not far enough, I'm afraid.

Today, you've lost the kingdom

that God gave you.

I'll go find someone better

to give it to.

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