1Sa 24:6, 26:9, 2Sa 23:18 | ESV | STEP | He said to his men , The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord , the Lord’s anointed , to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord’s anointed .

c ver. 11, 16, 23; ch. 24:6, 10; [2 Sam. 1:16]

1 Samuel 24:6

6 He said to his men, ^a“The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is ^bthe Lord’s anointed.”

1 Samuel 26:9

9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand ^cagainst the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?”

2 Samuel 23:18

18 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. ^{▼▼Two Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts three} And he wielded his spear against three hundred men ^{▼▼Or slain ones} and killed them and won a name beside the three.