1 Samuel 26:6–12

⁶Then answered David and said to Ahimelech ^ethe Hittite, and to ^fAbishai ^gthe son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will ^hgo down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. ⁷So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground ⁱat his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. ⁸Then said Abishai to David, ^kGod hath ^†delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. ⁹And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against ^lthe Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless? ¹⁰David said furthermore, ^mAs the Lord liveth, ⁿthe Lord shall smite him; or ^ohis day shall come to die; or he shall descend ^pinto battle, and perish. ¹¹The ^qLord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against ^lthe Lord’s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go. ¹²So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because ^ra deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.