1 Samuel 26:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ David said, As the Lord lives, [He] will smite him; or his day will come to die or he will go down in battle and perish.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ As surely as the LORD lives,” David continued, “it will be the LORD who will strike him down, or his day will come and he will die, or he’ll fall in battle and be destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And David said: "As the Lord lives, unless the Lord himself will strike him, or unless his day to die will have arrived, or unless, descending into battle, he will perish,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ 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.

1 Samuel 26:10 Cross References

Genesis 47:29

When the time of Israel’s death drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal loyally and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 14:5

Since their days are determined, and the number of their months is known to you, and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,

Job 7:1

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

Psalm 37:10

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.

Psalm 37:13

but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.

Psalm 94:23

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Ecclesiastes 3:2

a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Luke 18:7

And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

Romans 12:19

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 31:14

The Lord said to Moses, “Your time to die is near; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting,

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

Hebrews 10:30

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

Revelation 18:8

therefore her plagues will come in a single day— pestilence and mourning and famine— and she will be burned with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

1 Samuel 24:12

May the Lord judge between me and you! May the Lord avenge me on you, but my hand shall not be against you.

1 Samuel 24:15

May the Lord, therefore, be judge and give sentence between me and you. May he see to it and plead my cause and vindicate me against you.”

1 Samuel 25:26

“Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, since the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:38

About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

1 Samuel 25:39

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the case of Nabal’s insult to me and has kept back his servant from evil; the Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail to make her his wife.

1 Samuel 31:4

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer was unwilling, for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 31:6

So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together on the same day.