1 Samuel 26:9
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
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1 Samuel 26:9
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
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1 Samuel 26:8
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.”
1 Samuel 26:9
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
1 Samuel 26:10
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.
1 Samuel 26:11
Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
1 Samuel 24:4
David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’ ” Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.
1 Samuel 24:5
Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
1 Samuel 24:11
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. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
Job 31:29
“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him
Job 31:30
(I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
1 Samuel 26:23
Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel 23:7
Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
1 Samuel 24:13
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.
Psalms 71:11
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
1 Samuel 24:7
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 Samuel 24:10
Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is Yahweh’s anointed.’
1 Samuel 26:16
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.”
2 Samuel 1:14
David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
2 Samuel 1:16
David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”
2 Samuel 19:21
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Yahweh’s anointed?”
Psalms 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
Psalms 105:15
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
Exodus 22:28
“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
1 Samuel 12:5
He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”
1 Samuel 16:6
When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”
Isaiah 45:1
Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
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2 Samuel 19:22
David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”
Luke 9:55
But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.
1 Samuel 11:13
Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
1 Kings 1:52
Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”
2 Kings 6:22
He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, then go to their master.”
John 8:7
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”
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1 Samuel 26:6
Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
2 Samuel 16:9
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.”
2 Samuel 23:18
Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
Jeremiah 40:15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”
Jeremiah 40:16
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely of Ishmael.”
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1 Samuel 26:24
Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
1 Kings 21:3
Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”
Psalms 119:61
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
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Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
Romans 12:19
Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:20
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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