1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.
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Deuteronomy 31:14And LORD said to Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a command. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of mee
1 Samuel 24:15LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
1 Samuel 25:38And it came to pass about ten days after, that LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.
1 Samuel 31:4Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his s
Job 7:1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 26:7-13
David Spares Saul's Life. ( b. c. 1056.) 6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine… Read the whole commentary →