10David said, |As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.


In Context

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.

8 Then Abishai said to David, |God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. 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.|

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

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.

11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.|

12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.

1 Samuel 26:10 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

26:10As surely as the Lord lives," he said, "the Lord himself will strike him; either his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:10David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:10And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle and perish:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:10And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:10And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:10And David said, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and perish.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:10David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD will smite him; or his day will come to die; or he will descend into battle and perish.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:10And David saith, 'Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:10David said furthermore, As the LORD lives, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.