1 Samuel 24:5 - Revised Version 1885

⁵ And it came to pass afterward, that 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

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 24:10

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

2 Kings 22:19

because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

Psalm 59:11

Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

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.