2 Samuel 1:14

David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?

In Context

13And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalee.

15And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:6After which David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the hem of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 24:11Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 31:4Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

2 Peter 2:10And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 1:12-17

11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord , and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord… Read the whole commentary →

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