10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.¹ I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for ^kwho can put out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?” 10 And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will ^lstrike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. 11 ^mThe Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”