6 Then David answered, and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai athe son of Zeruiah, brother of bJoab, saying, “Who will cgo down with me to Saul in the camp?” And dAbishai said, “I will go down with you.”
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the people lay all around him.
8 Then Abishai said to David, a“God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him1 at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”
9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; afor who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
10 David said furthermore, “As the Lord lives, athe Lord shall strike him, or bhis day shall come to die, or he shall cgo out to battle and perish.
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