1 Samuel 26:8 “Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your h…”

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

World English Bible

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

American Standard Version

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then saide Abishai to Dauid, God hath closed thine enemie into thine hande this day: now therefore, I pray thee, let me smite him once with a speare to the earth, and I will not smite him againe.

Darby Translation

And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.

Young's Literal Translation

And Abishai saith unto David, 'God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once — and I do repeat [it] to him.'

Bible in Basic English

Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.

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Cross references

“God”

1 Samuel 24:4 1 Samuel 26:23 1 Samuel 23:14 Joshua 21:44 Judges 1:4 1 Samuel 24:18

1 Samuel 24:4 · BSB

So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corne…

1 Samuel 26:23 · BSB

May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.

1 Samuel 23:14 · BSB

And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

Joshua 21:44 · BSB

And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

Judges 1:4 · BSB

When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

1 Samuel 24:18 · BSB

And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

“delivered”

Deuteronomy 32:30 Psalm 31:8 Romans 11:32 Galatians 3:22 Galatians 3:23

Deuteronomy 32:30 · BSB

How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

Psalm 31:8 · BSB

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Romans 11:32 · BSB

For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

Galatians 3:22 · BSB

But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 3:23 · BSB

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

“the second time”

Nahum 1:9

Nahum 1:9 · BSB

Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

9But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can extend a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

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