1 Samuel 24:11

New American Bible - revised edition

You see for yourself today that the Lord just now delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I took pity on you instead. I decided, ‘I will not raise a hand against my master, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

Cross References

1 Samuel 26:20

Do not let my blood spill on the ground far from the presence of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea as if he were hunting partridge in the mountains.”

1 Samuel 23:23

Look around and learn in which of all the various hiding places he is holding out. Then come back to me with reliable information, and I will go with you. If he is in the region, I will track him down out of all the families of Judah.”

1 Samuel 23:14

David now lived in the strongholds in the wilderness, or in the barren hill country near Ziph. Though Saul sought him continually, the Lord did not deliver David into his hand.

John 15:25

But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’

2 Kings 5:13

But his servants came up and reasoned with him: “My father, if the prophet told you to do something extraordinary, would you not do it? All the more since he told you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

1 Samuel 26:18

He continued: “Why does my lord pursue his servant? What have I done? What evil am I planning?

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Ezekiel 13:18

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to those who sew amulets for the wrists of every arm and make veils for every head size to snare lives! You ensnare the lives of my people, even as you preserve your own lives!

Lamentations 4:18

They dogged our every step, we could not walk in our squares; Our end drew near, our time was up; yes, our end had come.

Proverbs 15:1

A mild answer turns back wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 140:11

Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

Psalm 35:7

Without cause they set their snare for me; without cause they dug a pit for me.

Job 10:16

Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,

1 Samuel 18:27

David arose and went with his men and slew two hundred Philistines. He brought back their foreskins and counted them out before the king that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him his daughter Michal as wife.

1 Samuel 25:28

Please forgive the offense of your maidservant, for the Lord shall certainly establish a lasting house for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. Let no evil be found in you your whole life long.

Psalm 59:3

Deliver me from evildoers; from the bloodthirsty save me.

Psalm 119:161

Princes persecute me without reason, but my heart reveres only your word.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I stand! Answer me in the presence of the Lord and the Lord’s anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I wronged? From whom have I accepted a bribe and shut my eyes because of it? I will make restitution to you.”

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord repays everyone’s righteousness and faithfulness. Although the Lord delivered you into my hands today, I could not lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed.

2 Samuel 1:14

David said to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to put forth your hand to desecrate the Lord’s anointed?”

Psalm 7:5

If I have maltreated someone treating me equitably— or even despoiled my oppressor without cause—