1 Samuel 15:9-11

New King James Version

⁹ But Saul and the people ^(A)spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

Saul Rejected as King

¹⁰ Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, ^11 (B)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has ^(C)turned back from following Me, ^(D)and has not performed My commandments.” And it ^(E)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.