1 Samuel 24:10

The English Standar Version

Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[3] I said, 'I will not put out 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 on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous 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 friend[2] 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 people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life[1] 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 a corner 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 harm'?