1 Samuel 26:8

Translations

Modern

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

Traditional

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.

Literal

And Abishai said to David, “God has delivered this day your enemy into your hand. And now let me strike him, please, with the spear and into the earth with one stroke; and I will not need repeat it to him.”

Latin

Dixitque Abisai ad David: Conclusit Deus inimicum tuum hodie in manus tuas: nunc ergo perfodiam eum lancea in terra semel, et secundo opus non erit.

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Hebrew

English

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

Notes

1 Samuel 26:8

God has delivered your enemy into your hand: Compare 1 Samuel 24:4.

1 Samuel 26:1–25

This was the last time Saul and David were together. The Ziphites informed Saul again about David's hiding place (see 1 Samuel 23:19–20). David spared Saul's life again, just like he did in the cave at En-gedi (see 1 Samuel 24).

Theme notes and profiles

Abishai Abner Absalom David Saul David's Response to Unfriendly Leaders

Events

Reign of Saul

Related verses

1 Samuel 24:4
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 26:23
May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Judges 1:4
When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
1 Samuel 23:14
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
1 Samuel 24:18–19
And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
Joshua 21:44
And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
Psalm 31:8
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
Nahum 1:9
Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
Romans 11:32
For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
Galatians 3:22–23
But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

People

Abishai: David's nephew, one of his mighty men and commanders David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ

Glossary

Abishai David John the Baptist Samuel, Books of First and Second

Topics

Abishai: Seeks Saul's Life Citizens: Loyal: David Courage: Personal Bravery in Entering Into the Tent of Saul, and Carrying Away Saul's Spear Loyalty: David Self-Control of David Spear: Stuck in the Ground Beside the Bolster During Sleep

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