1 Samuel 24:4

God's Word

David’s men told him, “Today is the day the Lord referred to when he said, ‘I’m going to hand your enemy over to you. You will do to him whatever you think is right.’ ” David quietly got up and cut off the border of Saul’s robe.

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:8

They brought Ishbosheth’s head to David at Hebron. “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of your enemy Saul who tried to kill you,” they told the king. “Today the Lord has given Your Royal Majesty revenge on Saul and his descendants.”

Job 31:31

“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….

Psalm 142:1

Loudly, I cry to the Lord. Loudly, I plead with the Lord for mercy.

Psalm 57:1

Have pity on me, O God. Have pity on me, because my soul takes refuge in you. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until destructive storms pass by.

Exodus 21:13

If it wasn’t done intentionally, but God let it happen, the killer should flee to a place I will set aside for you.

1 Samuel 22:1

So David escaped from that place and fled to the cave at Adullam. When his brothers and all ⌞the rest⌟ of his family heard about it, they went to him.

1 Samuel 23:17

“Don’t be afraid,” he told David, “my father Saul won’t find you. You will rule Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this.”

1 Samuel 23:7

When Saul was told that David went to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hands. He has trapped himself by going into a city which has ⌞a gate with⌟ a double door ⌞held shut by⌟ a bar.”

1 Samuel 24:10

Today you saw how the Lord handed you over to me in the cave. Although I was told to kill you, I spared you, saying, ‘I will not raise my hand against Your Majesty because you are the Lord’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 24:18

Today you have proved how good you’ve been to me. When the Lord handed me over to you, you didn’t kill me.

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord will reward any person who is righteous and faithful. The Lord handed you over to me today, but I refused to attack the Lord’s anointed king.