⁷So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

⁸Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won’t strike him twice.”

⁹But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed^p and be guiltless?^q ¹⁰As surely as the Lord lives,” he said, “the Lord himself will strike^r him, or his time^s will come and he will die,^t or he will go into battle and perish. ¹¹But the Lord forbid that I should lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let’s go.”

¹²So David took the spear and water jug near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.^u

Read in Logos

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?”

Cross references

mSee Ge 10:15
n 2 Sa 2:18; 10:10; 16:9; 18:2; 19:21; 23:18; 1 Ch 11:20; 19:11
o 1 Ch 2:16
pver 16; See Ge 26:11; See 1 Sa 9:16; 2 Sa 1:14; 19:21; La 4:20
qSee 1 Sa 24:5
rSee Ge 16:5; See 1 Sa 25:38; See Ro 12:19
s Dt 31:14; Ps 37:13
t 1 Sa 31:6; 2 Sa 1:1
uSee Jdg 4:21