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“The Lord forbid,” he told his men, “that I should do something like that to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lift my hand against him, because he’s the Lord’s anointed!” So David held his soldiers in check by what he said,[a] and he wouldn’t allow them to attack Saul. Saul then left the cave and went on his way.

Then David also went out of the cave and yelled after Saul, “My master the king!” Saul looked back, and David bowed low out of respect, nose to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 24:7 Heb uncertain

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