1 Samuel 26:8

Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

In Context

7So David and Abishai came to the people by night. And, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the people lay round about him.

9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?

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Cross References

Joshua 21:44And LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers. And there stood not a man of all their enemies before them. LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

1 Samuel 23:14And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:5And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

1 Samuel 26:23And LORD will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness, inasmuch as LORD delivered thee into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against LORD's anointed.

Psalms 31:8and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.

Nahum 1:9What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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 →

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