1 Samuel 24:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ And afterward David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Afterward, David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.

Common English Bible

⁵ But immediately David felt horrible that he had cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And the servants of David said to him: "Behold the day, about which the Lord said to you, 'I will deliver your enemy to you, so that you may do to him as it will be pleasing in your eyes.' " Then David rose up, and he quietly cut off the edge of Saul's cloak.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which the Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose, and secretly cut off the hem of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 24:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 24:10

But David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have rent your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.

Psalm 59:11

Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

1 Samuel 26:8

Then said Abishai to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”