1 Samuel 26:8

Modern English Version

Then Abishai said to David, “God has today delivered your enemy into your hand. Now please let me strike him with the spear through to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him a second time.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “How can this dead dog curse my lord the king! Let me go over and remove his head.”

Psalm 31:8

and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Let me go, please, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know it. Why should he slay you so that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered and the remnant in Judah perish?”

Nahum 1:9

Why do you all scheme against the Lord? He will bring it to an end. It will not rise up a second time.

Romans 11:32

For God has imprisoned them all in disobedience, so that He might be merciful to all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that He swore to their fathers. Not a man among their enemies stood before them, and the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

Judges 1:4

Then Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands. They struck down ten thousand men in Bezek.

1 Samuel 23:14

And David remained in the wilderness in strongholds, and dwelt in mountains in the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:4

The men of David said to him, “This is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I am giving your enemy into your hand. You may do with him as seems good in your eyes.’ ” Then David arose and secretly cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 24:5

Afterward David’s heart troubled him because he had cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord requites to every man his right conduct and loyalty. So the Lord gave you into my hand today, but I am not willing to stretch my hand against the Lord’s anointed.

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai came to the people by night while Saul lay sleeping within the circle of the camp. And his spear was stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the people were lying all around him.

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?”