1 Samuel 26:6–12

⁶Then David answered and said to Ahimelech ^athe Hittite and to ^bAbishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, saying, “Who ^cwill 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 people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

⁸Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has surrendered your enemy into your hand; so now, please let me strike him with the spear ¹to the ground with one stroke, and I will not ²strike him the second time.”

⁹But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for ^awho can send forth his hand against the anointed of Yahweh and be without guilt?”

¹⁰David also said, “As Yahweh lives, ^asurely Yahweh will smite him, or ^bhis day will come that he dies, or ^che will go down into battle and be swept away.

¹¹“^aYahweh forbid that I should send forth my hand against the anointed of Yahweh; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go.”

¹²So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul’s head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because ^aa ¹sound sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.