1 Samuel 24:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave, and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not raise my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

Cross References

Psalm 105:15

saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous might not stretch out their hands to do wrong.

Psalm 7:3

O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

Exodus 21:13

If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.

Ezekiel 22:9

In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:4

The men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.’ ” Then David went and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.

1 Samuel 24:9

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of those who say, ‘David seeks to do you harm’?