For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you today, ye are rebels against the Lord, and how much more after my death?
And Samuel said, Does the Lord have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in hearing the voice of the Lord? Behold, to hear is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is the sin of witchcraft, and to break the word of the Lord is iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected thee from being king.
God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
¶ Woe to the sons that leave, saith the Lord, to make counsel, but not of me; to cover themselves with a covering, and not by my spirit, adding sin unto sin!
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for thy name’s sake; for our rebellions have multiplied; we have sinned against thee.
And I will spread my net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass with which he has rebelled against me.