1 Samuel 24:18 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁸ And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me up into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ You have declared today how you have dealt well with me; for when the Lord gave me into your hand, you did not kill me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killedst me not.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Today you’ve told me the good you have done for me—how the LORD handed me over to you, but how you didn’t kill me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he said to David: "You are more just than I am. For you have distributed good to me, but I have repaid evil to you.

1 Samuel 24:18 Cross References

Genesis 38:26

And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Psalm 31:8

And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Psalm 7:5

Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah

Proverbs 25:22

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, And the LORD shall reward thee.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.

1 Samuel 23:7

And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

1 Samuel 24:10

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

1 Samuel 26:23

And the LORD shall render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: forasmuch as the LORD delivered thee into my hand today, and I would not put forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.

1 Samuel 26:8

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.