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Destroy Him Not — 1 Samuel 26:7–11

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 round about him.
1SAM 26:7
Then said Abishai to David,
God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
1SAM 26:8
And David said to Abishai,
Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?
And 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. Jehovah forbid that I should put 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.
1SAM 26:9–11
— 154 — 1 Samuel 26:7–11 ASV