1 Samuel 26:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Abishai whispered to David: “God has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Let me nail him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I will not need to strike him twice!”

Cross References

1 Samuel 24:4

When he came to the sheepfolds along the way, he found a cave, which he entered to relieve himself. David and his men were occupying the inmost recesses of the cave.

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.

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.

Judges 1:4

When Judah attacked, the Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their power, and they struck down ten thousand of them in Bezek.

Joshua 21:44

the Lord gave them peace on every side, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of their enemies could withstand them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their power.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How could one rout a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, Unless it was because their Rock sold them, the Lord delivered them up?”

Romans 11:32

For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

Nahum 1:9

What do you plot against the Lord, the one about to bring total destruction? No opponent rises a second time!

Psalm 31:8

I will rejoice and be glad in your mercy, once you have seen my misery, [and] gotten to know the distress of my soul.

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai reached Saul’s soldiers by night, and there was Saul lying asleep within the camp, his spear thrust into the ground at his head and Abner and his troops sleeping around him.

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?

2 Samuel 16:9

Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king: “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan, son of Kareah, said secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah: “Please let me go and kill Ishmael, son of Nethaniah; no one will know it. What if he assassinates you? All the Judahites who have now rallied behind you would scatter and the remnant of Judah would perish.”

1 Samuel 24:5

David’s servants said to him, “This is the day about which the Lord said to you: I will deliver your enemy into your hand; do with him as you see fit.” So David moved up and stealthily cut off an end of Saul’s robe.