1 Samuel 26:21

World English Bible (2000)

Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."

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  • 1 Sam 15:24 : 24 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
  • 1 Sam 24:17 : 17 He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
  • Exod 9:27 : 27 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
  • 1 Sam 15:30 : 30 Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."
  • 1 Sam 18:30 : 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.
  • Num 22:34 : 34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."
  • 1 Sam 26:24 : 24 Behold, as your life was respected this day in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression."
  • 1 Sam 27:4 : 4 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
  • Ps 49:8 : 8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
  • Ps 116:15 : 15 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

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  • 1 Sam 15:30-31
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    30Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God."

    31So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 15:24-25
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    24Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

    25Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh."

  • 1 Chr 21:8
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    8David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 1 Sam 26:22-25
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    22David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

    23Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.

    24Behold, as your life was respected this day in my eyes, so let my life be respected in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression."

    25Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Sam 24:16-17
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    16It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

    17He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

  • 1 Sam 26:17-18
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    17Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

    18He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 1 Sam 23:21
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    21Saul said, "You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

  • 1 Sam 26:20
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    20Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."

  • 2 Sam 24:10
    76%

    10David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

  • 1 Sam 24:8-11
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    8David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

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

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

    11Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

  • 2 Sam 24:17
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    17David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."

  • 1 Sam 20:1
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    1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

  • 1 Sam 14:38
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    38Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

  • 1 Chr 21:17
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    17David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

  • 1 Sam 19:4-6
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    4Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

    5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

    6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death."

  • 2 Sam 19:20
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    20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

  • 2 Sam 1:16-17
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    16David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 24:5
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    5It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

  • 1 Sam 28:21
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    21The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
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    17Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

  • Ps 41:4
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    4I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

  • 1 Sam 13:11-13
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    11Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

    12therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh.' I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering."

    13Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

  • 1 Sam 22:12-13
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    12Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub." He answered, "Here I am, my lord."

    13Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 2 Sam 12:13
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    13David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
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    21Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 16:22
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    22Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight."

  • 1 Sam 20:32
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    32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 18:11
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    11and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.

  • 1 Sam 26:8
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    8Then 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."

  • 1 Sam 24:21-22
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    21Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."

    22David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.