9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?


In Context

6 And David spake and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

7 And David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the wagon-defence, and his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.

8 And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.

9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?

10 And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will surely smite him; either his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and perish.

11 Jehovah forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed! But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

1 Samuel 26:9 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

26:9But David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord 's anointed and be guiltless?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed and be guiltless?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:9David said to Abishai, |Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:9And David saith unto Abishai, 'Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?