1 Samuel 26:16

Modern English Version

This thing is not good which you have done. As the Lord lives, you are worthy of death because you have not guarded your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now, see where is the king’s spear? And the jug of water that was at his head?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:5

David became very angry because of this man. He said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What right do I have to cry out any more to the king?”

1 Kings 2:26

The king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord God before David my father and because you shared in all the hardships my father endured.”

Psalm 102:20

to hear the groaning of the prisoners, to release those who were appointed to die,

Psalm 79:11

Let the groaning of the prisoners come before You; according to the greatness of Your power preserve those who are appointed to die.

Ephesians 2:3

among them we all also once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

1 Samuel 20:31

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now, send and bring him to me, for he is a dead man.”

1 Samuel 24:6

He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, for he is anointed of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 26:11

The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed, but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go.”

1 Samuel 26:15

And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? And who is like to you in Israel? Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

1 Samuel 26:9

David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and remain unpunished?”