18He said, |Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?


In Context

15 David said to Abner, |Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

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.|

17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, |Is this your voice, my son David?| David said, |It is my voice, my lord, O king.|

18 He said, |Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.|

1 Samuel 26:18 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he added, "Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done, and what wrong am I guilty of?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Why doth my lord thus pursue his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:18and he saith, 'Why is this — my lord is pursuing after his servant? for what have I done, and what is in my hand evil?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:18And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?