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And then[a] afterward David felt guilty,[b] because he had cut the hem of Saul’s robe.[c] He said to his men, “Far be it from me in[d] Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh’s anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he is the anointed one of Yahweh.” So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his[e] way.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 24:5 Literally “And it happened”
  2. 1 Samuel 24:5 Literally “the heart of David struck him”
  3. 1 Samuel 24:5 Literally “the hem which was for Saul”
  4. 1 Samuel 24:6 Hebrew “from”
  5. 1 Samuel 24:7 Hebrew “the”