1 Samuel 26:8

Good News Translation

Abishai said to David, “God has put your enemy in your power tonight. Now let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground with just one blow—I won't have to strike twice!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

Abishai, whose mother was Zeruiah, said to the king, “Your Majesty, why do you let this dog curse you? Let me go over there and cut off his head!”

Psalm 31:8

You have not let my enemies capture me; you have given me freedom to go where I wish.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan said privately to him, “Let me go and kill Ishmael, and no one will know who did it. Why should he be allowed to murder you? That would cause all the Jews who have gathered around you to be scattered, and it would bring disaster on all the people who are left in Judah.”

Nahum 1:9

What are you plotting against the Lord? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.

Romans 11:32

For God has made all people prisoners of disobedience, so that he might show mercy to them all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The Lord, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them peace throughout the land, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of all their enemies had been able to stand against them, because the Lord gave the Israelites the victory over all their enemies.

Judges 1:4

and Judah went into battle together. The Lord gave them victory over the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.

1 Samuel 23:14

David stayed in hiding in the hill country, in the wilderness near Ziph. Saul was always trying to find him, but God did not turn David over to him.

1 Samuel 24:4

They said to him, “This is your chance! The Lord has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to.” David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul's robe without Saul's knowing it.

1 Samuel 24:5

But then David's conscience began to hurt,

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord rewards those who are faithful and righteous. Today he put you in my power, but I did not harm you, whom the Lord made king.

1 Samuel 26:7

So that night David and Abishai entered Saul's camp and found Saul sleeping in the center of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the troops were sleeping around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said, “You must not harm him! The Lord will certainly punish whoever harms his chosen king.