1 Samuel 26:9

And David said to Abessa, Do not lay him low, for who shall lift up his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and be guiltless?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless?

In Context

8And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will + 26:8 Gr. double the stroke to him. strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not strike him again.

10And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord strike him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:6And it came to pass after this that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the skirt of his garment.

2 Samuel 1:16And David said to him, Your blood be upon your own head; for your mouth has + 1:16 Gr. answered. testified against you, saying, I have slain the anointed of the Lord.

Psalms 17:4The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. 1

Psalms 105:15And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls. 1

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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