1 Samuel 26:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ David sent out spies and learned that Saul had actually come.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.

Common English Bible

⁴ he sent spies and discovered that Saul had definitely arrived.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ he sent explorers, and he learned that he certainly had arrived in that place.

1 Samuel 26:4 Cross References

Matthew 10:16

4 The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

Joshua 2:1

But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.

1 Samuel 26:3

And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.

1 Samuel 26:5

0 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle and perish: