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1 Samuel 26:8-10
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8 Then 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[a] one time,[b] and I will not strike him twice.”[c] 9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy[d] him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed one and remained blameless?” 10 And David said, “As Yahweh lives,[e] certainly[f] Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and perish.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 26:8 Literally “let me strike him please with the spear and in the ground”
  2. 1 Samuel 26:8 Literally “one occurrence”
  3. 1 Samuel 26:8 Literally “I will not repeat for him”
  4. 1 Samuel 26:9 Or “kill”
  5. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
  6. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “if surely”
  7. 1 Samuel 26:10 Literally “will be carried away”
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