1 Samuel 26:9

World English Bible (2000)

David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?"

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:14 : 14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"
  • Ps 105:15 : 15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
  • 1 Sam 24:6-7 : 6 He said to his men, "Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is Yahweh's anointed." 7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

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  • 2 Sam 1:14-16
    3 verses
    87%

    14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

    15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

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

  • 1 Sam 24:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6 He said to his men, "Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is Yahweh's anointed."

    7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

  • 1 Sam 26:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

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

    11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."

  • 1 Sam 26:8
    82%

    8 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."

  • 2 Sam 19:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?"

    22 David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? For don't I know that I am this day king over Israel?"

  • 1 Sam 26:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

    23 Yahweh 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.

  • 1 Sam 24:9-12
    4 verses
    79%

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

    10 Behold, 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.

    11 Moreover, 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.

    12 May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 1 Sam 26:15-18
    4 verses
    77%

    15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

    16 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

    17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

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

  • 1 Sam 19:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4 Jonathan 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;

    5 for 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?"

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

  • 2 Sam 16:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."

    10 The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"

    11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    74%

    23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Chr 16:22
    74%

    22 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

  • 2 Sam 3:28
    74%

    28 Afterward, when David heard it, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    74%

    17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

  • Ps 132:10
    73%

    10 For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face of your anointed one.

  • 2 Sam 21:17
    73%

    17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel."

  • Ps 105:15
    73%

    15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

  • 2 Chr 6:42
    73%

    42 "Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant."

  • 2 Sam 3:18
    72%

    18 Now then do it; for Yahweh 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.'"

  • 2 Sam 3:9
    72%

    9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don't do even so to him;

  • 1 Sam 26:6
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 22:14
    72%

    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Sam 29:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

    9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'

  • 1 Sam 17:26
    72%

    26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"

  • 2 Sam 12:7
    72%

    7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

  • 1 Kgs 2:32
    72%

    32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
    71%

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

  • 2 Sam 24:17
    71%

    17 David 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 Kgs 2:9
    71%

    9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

  • 2 Sam 18:12
    71%

    12 The man said to Joab, "Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.'

  • 1 Sam 20:15
    71%

    15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth."

  • 2 Sam 9:1
    71%

    1 David said, "Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.