1 Samuel 26:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then Abishai said to David, ‘Today God has delivered your enemy to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t have to strike him twice! ’

Cross References

1 Samuel 24:4

so they said to him, ‘Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: “I will hand your enemy over to you so you can do to him whatever you desire.” ’ Then David got up and secretly cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord will repay every man for his righteousness  and his loyalty. I wasn’t willing to lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed, even though the Lord handed you over to me today.

1 Samuel 23:14

David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph.  Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.

Judges 1:4

When Judah attacked, the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites  over to them. They struck down ten thousand men in Bezek.

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them rest on every side according to all he had sworn to their ancestors. None of their enemies were able to stand against them, for the Lord handed over all their enemies to them.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the  Lord had given them up?

Romans 11:32

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience  so that he may have mercy on all.

Nahum 1:9

Whatever you  plot against the  Lord, he will bring it to complete destruction; oppression will not rise up a second time.

1 Samuel 26:7

That night, David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the troops were lying around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, ‘Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be innocent? ’

2 Samuel 16:9

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, ‘Why should this dead dog  curse my lord the king?  Let me go over and remove his head! ’

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, ‘Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and allow all of Judah that has gathered around you to scatter and the remnant of Judah to perish? ’

1 Samuel 24:5

Afterwards, David’s conscience bothered  , him because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.