1 Samuel 26:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

Then 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.”

Psalm 31:8

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

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one else will know. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered around you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?”

Nahum 1:9

Why do you plot against the Lord? He will make an end; no adversary will rise up twice.

Romans 11:32

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?

Joshua 21:44

And the Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors; not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands.

Judges 1:4

Then Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated ten thousand of them at Bezek.

1 Samuel 23:14

David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but the Lord did not give him into his hand.

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 24:5

Afterward David was stricken to the heart because he had cut off a corner of Saul’s cloak.

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 26:7

So David and Abishai went to the army by night; there Saul lay sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can raise his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?”