Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t have to strike him twice!”

But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?”(A) 10 David added, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down:(B) either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

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