1 Samuel 26:8

Tree of Life Version

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Now let me pin him to the ground with a single thrust of the spear. I will not have to strike him twice.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:9

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why let this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and take off his head!”

Psalm 31:8

I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, for You saw my affliction. You knew the troubles of my soul.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah, saying, “Let me go now, and I will slay Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews that are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?’

Nahum 1:9

What can you scheme against Adonai? He will make a complete destruction. Distress will not arise twice.

Romans 11:32

For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He might show mercy to all.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Adonai had handed them over?

Joshua 21:44

Then Adonai gave them rest on all sides, just as He had sworn to their fathers. Not one man of all their enemies withstood them, for Adonai gave all their enemies into their hand.

Judges 1:4

When Judah went up, Adonai delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; they struck down 10,000 of them at Bezek.

1 Samuel 23:14

So David stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness, remaining in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

1 Samuel 24:4

So David’s men said to him, “Look, it’s the day Adonai spoke to you about, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, so you may do to him as seems good in your eyes.’” Then David crept and cut off the corner of Saul’s robe stealthily.

1 Samuel 24:5

But afterward, David’s conscience bothered him for cutting off the edge of Saul’s robe.

1 Samuel 26:23

Adonai will repay everyone his righteousness and his faithfulness. For Adonai gave you into my hand today, but I refused to lay my hand on Adonai’s anointed.

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai approached the troops by night. Behold, Saul was lying asleep within the barricade with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the troops were sleeping around him.

1 Samuel 26:9

But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! For who can lay his hand on Adonai’s anointed and be guiltless?”