1Sa 26:8-9 | ESV | STEP | Then Abishai said to David , 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 .

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

1 Samuel 26:8-9

8 Then Abishai said to David, ^a“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 ^bagainst the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?”