⁶David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah the brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul, in the camp?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” ⁷So David and Abishai came to the army by night, and there was^c Saul lying asleep in the encampment with^d his spear thrust into the ground near his head, and Abner and the army were lying all around him. ⁸Then Abishai said to David, “God has handed over your enemy into your hand today! So then, please let me pin him to the ground with the spear^e one time,^f and I will not strike him twice.”^g ⁹But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy^h him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed one and remained blameless?” ¹⁰And David said, “As Yahweh lives,ⁱ certainly^j Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and perish.^k ¹¹Yahweh forbid me^l from stretching out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed one! So then, please take the spear that is near his head and the jar of water, and let us go.” ¹²So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened,^m for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them.

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1 Samuel 26:9: But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?”

Footnotes

cLiterally “look” or “behold”
dHebrew “and”
eLiterally “let me strike him please with the spear and in the ground”
fLiterally “one occurrence”
gLiterally “I will not repeat for him”
hOr “kill”
iLiterally “The life of Yahweh”
jLiterally “if surely”
kLiterally “will be carried away”
lLiterally “Far be it from me from Yahweh”
mLiterally “there was not anyone seeing and there was not anyone knowing and there was not anyone awakening”