1 Samuel 24:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.

Cross References

Genesis 38:26

Then Judah acknowledged them and said, “She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not lie with her again.

Psalm 31:8

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

Psalm 7:5

then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

Proverbs 25:22

for you will heap coals of fire on their heads, and the Lord will reward you.

1 Samuel 23:12

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” The Lord said, “They will surrender you.”

1 Samuel 23:7

Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”

1 Samuel 24:10

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.’

1 Samuel 24:19

For who has ever found an enemy and sent the enemy safely away? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

1 Samuel 26:23

The Lord rewards everyone for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, but I would not raise my hand against the Lord’s anointed.

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”