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David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

1 Samuel 26:9 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી1 શમુએલ ૨૬:૯
દાઉદે અબિશાયને કહ્યું, “તેને મારી નાખીશ નહિ. કેમ કે ઈશ્વરના અભિષિક્તની વિરુદ્ધ પોતાના હાથ ઉગામીને કોણ નિર્દોષ રહી શકે?”
हिन्दी1 शमूएल २६:९
दाऊद ने अबीशै से कहा, “उसे नष्ट न कर; क्योंकि यहोवा के अभिषिक्त पर हाथ चलाकर कौन निर्दोष ठहर सकता है।”

In context

7So 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.

8Then 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.”

9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

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

11The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

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