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1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

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ASV

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.

KJV

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
אֲבִישַׁי֙'a.vi.ShaiAbishaiH52 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
דָּוִ֔דda.VidDavidH1732 →
סִגַּ֨רsi.Garhe has delivered upH5462 →
אֱלֹהִ֥ים'E.lo.HimGodH430 →
הַיּ֛וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אוֹיִבְךָ֖'o.yiv.Khaenemy yourH341 →
בְּיָדֶ֑ךָbe.ya.De.khain hand yourH3027 →
וְעַתָּה֩ve.'a.Tahand thereforeH6258 →
אַכֶּ֨נּוּ'ak.Ke.nulet me strike himH5221 →
נָ֜אna'pleaseH4994 →
בַּחֲנִ֤יתba.cha.Nitwith the spearH2595 →
וּבָאָ֙רֶץ֙u.va.'A.retzand in the groundH776 →
פַּ֣עַםPa.'ama timeH6471 →
אַחַ֔ת'a.ChatoneH259 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
אֶשְׁנֶ֖ה'esh.NehI will repeatH8138 →
לֽוֹ׃loto <the> him

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1 Samuel 24:4So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.1 Samuel 26:23May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.Hosea 11:9I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man— the Holy One among you— and I will not come in wrath.Jeremiah 40:15Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.1 Samuel 23:14And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.Judges 1:4When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.1 Samuel 24:18–19And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.Deuteronomy 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?Joshua 21:44And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.2 Samuel 20:10Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.Job 31:31if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—1 Samuel 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.1 Chronicles 18:12Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.2 Kings 6:21And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”2 Samuel 18:28Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”2 Samuel 19:22And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”Psalms 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

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David Slays Goliath — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
David Slays Goliath — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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