1 Samuel 26:8

Free Bible Version

Abishai said to David, “God has handed your enemy over to you today. So please let me spear him to the ground in one go. I won't need to do it twice!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

Abishai, son of Zeruiah, asked the king, “Why should this dead dog curse Your Majesty? Let me go and cut off his head!”

Psalm 31:8

You haven't handed me over to my enemies; you have set me free.

Jeremiah 40:15

Johanan went and talked privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he told him. “No one will find out. Why should he be allowed to kill you? All the people of Judah who have joined you would be scattered, so that even those who have survived here would be killed!”

Nahum 1:9

Why are you plotting against the Lord? He will end it completely; misery won't arise twice.

Romans 11:32

For God treated everyone as prisoners because of their disobedience so that he could be merciful to everyone.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How on earth could one man chase after a thousand, or two make ten thousand run away, unless their Rock of protection had sold them, unless the Lord had surrendered them?

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them peace on every side as he had promised their ancestors. Not a single one of their enemies could stand against them, for the Lord had handed their enemies over to them to defeat.

Judges 1:4

The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites and Perizzites, and the Lord handed them over in defeat. They killed ten thousand of the enemy at the town of Bezek.

1 Samuel 23:14

David set up camp in the wilderness strongholds, staying in the mountains of the Desert of Ziph. Saul searched for him continually, but God did not let David be captured.

1 Samuel 24:4

David's men said to him, “Today's the day the Lord promised you when he told you, ‘Listen, I'm going to hand over your enemy to you, so you can do to him whatever you want.’” Then David crept up quietly and cut a piece from the edge of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 24:5

But afterwards David felt really bad because he'd cut off a piece of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord rewards all those who do what is right and who are trustworthy. The Lord handed you over to me today, but I refused to harm the Lord's anointed one.

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai went to the army camp at night. Saul was sleeping there in the camp with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner and his men sleeping around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “No, don't kill him! Who can attack the Lord's anointed one and not be guilty of a crime?