1 Samuel 26:8

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

— The Restored Word Bible

Context

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? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.

8 Then said Abishai to David, Elohim has delivered your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray you, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not him the second time.

9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Yahuah'S anointed, and be guiltless?

10 David said furthermore, the Yahuah liveth, the Yahuah shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

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