1 Samuel 26:8

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And Aḇishai said to Dawiḏ, “Elohim has surrendered your enemy into your hand this day. And now, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right into the earth, and not a second time!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

And Aḇishai son of Tseruyah said to the sovereign, “Why should this dead dog curse my master the sovereign? Please, let me pass over and take off his head!”

Psalm 31:8

And You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Yoḥanan son of Qarĕaḥ spoke secretly to Geḏalyahu in Mitspah, saying, “Please let me go and strike Yishma‛ĕl son of Nethanyah, without anyone knowing it. Why should he murder you, and so let all the Yehuḏim who are gathered to you be scattered, and the remnant in Yehuḏah perish?”

Nahum 1:9

What do you plot against יהוה? He makes a complete end of it. Distress does not rise up a second time.

Romans 11:32

For Elohim has shut them all up to disobedience, in order to have compassion on all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

“How would one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And יהוה had given them up?

Joshua 21:44

And יהוה gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them, יהוה gave all their enemies into their hand.

Judges 1:4

And Yehuḏah went up, and יהוה gave the Kena‛anites and the Perizzites into their hand. And they struck ten thousand men at Bezeq.

1 Samuel 23:14

And Dawiḏ remained in the wilderness, in strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the Wilderness of Ziph. And Sha’ul sought him every day, but Elohim did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:4

And the men of Dawiḏ said to him, “See, the day of which יהוה said to you, ‘See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you!’ ” And Dawiḏ arose and gently cut off a corner of Sha’ul’s robe.

1 Samuel 24:5

And it came to be afterward that the heart of Dawiḏ struck him because he had cut the robe of Sha’ul.

1 Samuel 26:23

“And let יהוה reward every man for his righteousness and his trustworthiness, for this day יהוה gave you into my hand, but I would not stretch out my hand against the anointed of יהוה.

1 Samuel 26:7

And Dawiḏ and Aḇishai came to the people by night and saw Sha’ul lying asleep within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head, and Aḇnĕr and the people lay all around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But Dawiḏ said to Aḇishai, “Do not destroy him, for who shall stretch out his hand against the anointed of יהוה, and be guiltless?”