1 Samuel 26:6-11

English Standard Version

⁶ Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother ^(A)Abishai the son of Zeruiah, ^(B)“Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” ⁷ So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within ^(C)the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground ^(D)at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. ⁸ Then Abishai said to David, ^(E)“God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.” ⁹ But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand ^(F)against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?” ¹⁰ And David said, ^(G)“As the Lord lives, ^(H)the Lord will strike him, or ^(I)his day will come to die, ^(J)or he will go down into battle and perish. ^11 (K)The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed. But take now the spear that is ^(L)at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”