1 Samuel 26:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now, therefore, let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him a second time."

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't need to strike him twice."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then said{H559} Abishai{H52} to David,{H1732} God{H430} hath delivered{H5462} up thine enemy{H341} into thy hand{H3027} this day:{H3117} now therefore let me smite{H5221} him, I pray thee, with the spear{H2595} to the earth{H776} at one stroke,{H6471} and I will not smite him the second time.{H8138}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Then said{H559}{(H8799)} Abishai{H52} to David{H1732}, God{H430} hath delivered{H5462}{(H8765)} thine enemy{H341}{(H8802)} into thine hand{H3027} this day{H3117}: now therefore let me smite{H5221}{(H8686)} him, I pray thee, with the spear{H2595} even to the earth{H776} at once{H6471}{H259}, and I will not smite him the second time{H8138}{(H8799)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The sayde Abisai vnto Dauid: God hath closed thine enemye in thyne hande this daye. Therfore will I now thrust him thorow once with the speare euen in to the grounde, yt he shall haue ynough of it.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Then saide Abisai to Dauid, God hath closed thyne enemie into thyne hand thys day: Nowe I pray thee let me smite him once with my speare to the earth, & I will not smite him the second tyme.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. 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."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Abishai said to David,“Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear right through him into the ground with one swift jab! A second jab won’t be necessary!”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 24:4 : 4 And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.
  • 1 Sam 26:23 : 23 The LORD repay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
  • Deut 32:30 : 30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
  • Josh 21:44 : 44 And the LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers: and none of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
  • Judg 1:4 : 4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they killed in Bezek ten thousand men.
  • 1 Sam 23:14 : 14 And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
  • 1 Sam 24:18-19 : 18 And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me: for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safely? Therefore the LORD reward you good for that which you have done unto me this day.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
  • Nah 1:9 : 9 What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up a second time.
  • Rom 11:32 : 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
  • Gal 3:22-23 : 22 But the Scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, confined unto the faith which would afterwards be revealed.

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    6 Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down with me to the camp of Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."

    7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and there lay Saul sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; but Abner and the people lay around him.

  • 1 Sam 26:9-11
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    9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

    10 David said furthermore, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish."

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    9 And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

    10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

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    14 And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

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    16 And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

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  • 2 Sam 3:18
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    18 Now then do it, for the LORD has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

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  • 1 Sam 17:46
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    46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. I will give the bodies of the Philistine army this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

  • 2 Sam 3:8-9
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    8 Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, that against Judah I show kindness this day unto the house of Saul your father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David, that you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?

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    8 And David said to Ahimelech, Is there not here on hand a spear or sword? For I have not brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

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    2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people who are with him will flee, and I will strike the king only:

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    11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?