1 Samuel 26:16

New American Bible - revised edition

What you have done is not right. As the Lord lives, you people deserve death because you have not guarded your lord, the anointed of the Lord. Go, look: where are the king’s spear and the water jug that was at his head?” Saul Admits His Guilt.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:5

David grew very angry with that man and said to Nathan: “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves death!

2 Samuel 19:28

But he slandered your servant before my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems good to you.

1 Kings 2:26

The king said to Abiathar the priest: “Go to your estate in Anathoth. Though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father and shared in all the hardships my father endured.”

Psalm 102:20

“The Lord looked down from the holy heights, viewed the earth from heaven,

Psalm 79:11

Let the groaning of the imprisoned come in before you; in accord with the greatness of your arm preserve those doomed to die.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.

1 Samuel 20:31

For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, you cannot make good your claim to the kingship! Now send for him, and bring him to me, for he must die.”

1 Samuel 24:6

Afterward, however, David regretted that he had cut off an end of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 26:11

But the Lord forbid that I lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed! Now take the spear at his head and the water jug, and let us be on our way.”

1 Samuel 26:15

David said to Abner: “Are you not a man? Who in Israel is your equal? Why were you not guarding your lord the king when one of his subjects came to assassinate the king, your lord?

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “Do not harm him, for who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and remain innocent?