1Sa 22:17, 24:10, 2Sa 18:12, Act 12:1 | ESV | STEP | And the king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn and kill the priests of the Lord , because their hand also is with David , and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me . But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord .

d[See ver. 6 above]

1 Samuel 22:17

17 And the king said to ^athe guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.

1 Samuel 24:10

10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. ^bAnd some told me to kill you, but I spared you. ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew it [my eye] spared you} I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, ^dfor he is the Lord’s anointed.’

2 Samuel 18:12

12 But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for ^ein our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

Acts 12:1

James Killed and Peter Imprisoned

1 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.