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


In Context

6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, |Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?| Abishai said, |I will go down with you.|

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.|

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch 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 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?