Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you; now then, please let me [a]pin him with the spear to the ground with one thrust, and I will not [b]do it to him a second time.” But David said to Abishai, “Do not [c]kill him, for (A)who can reach out with his hand against the Lords anointed and remain innocent?” 10 David also said, “As the Lord lives, (B)the Lord certainly will strike him, or (C)his day will come that he dies, or (D)he will go down in battle and [d]perish.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 26:8 Lit strike him...even into
  2. 1 Samuel 26:8 Lit repeat it to him
  3. 1 Samuel 26:9 Lit destroy
  4. 1 Samuel 26:10 Lit be carried away

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