1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
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Cross references
- 2 Samuel 1:14 David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”
- 1 Samuel 26:9–11 David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?” David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish. Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
- Job 31:29–30 “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);