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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.”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.”

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.'

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to 1 Samuel 26:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 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 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.
  • Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
  • Joshua 21:44 Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
  • Judges 1:4 Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
  • 1 Samuel 23:14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand.
  • 1 Samuel 24:18-19 You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me. For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
  • Psalms 31:8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
  • Nahum 1:9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
  • Romans 11:32 For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
  • Galatians 3:22-23 But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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Explain this verse (12 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, he would make him sure at one stroke.

Meaning, he would make him sure at one stroke.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I will nail him to the ground at one…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then said Abishai to David,.... Seeing Saul fast asleep,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. God hath delivered thine enemy into thine…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 26:8-9. Now, therefore, let me smite him —…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain My. Hebrew, "the spear," which was fixed in the…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. I will not smite him the second time…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. hath delivered] Lit. shut up, as in 1Sa_24:18.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) I will not smite him the second time.—The…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 26:8 God has surely handed your enemy over to…

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