1 Samuel 24:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed.’

Cross References

Psalm 105:15

saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”

Psalm 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous put forth 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 requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

Exodus 21:13

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

Ezekiel 22:9

There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and men in you who eat upon the mountains; men commit lewdness in your midst.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:4

And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’ ” Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe.

1 Samuel 24:9

And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your hurt’?