1 Samuel 26:8

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

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BSB

Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

KJV

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

ASV

Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

BBE

Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.

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וַיֹּאמֶר vai·yo·mer and he said H559 אֲבִישַׁי 'a·vi·shai Abishai H52 אֶל־ 'el- to H413 דָּוִד da·vid David H1732 סִגַּר si·gar he has delivered up H5462 אֱלֹהִים 'e·lo·him God H430 הַיּוֹם hai·yom this day H3117 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 אוֹיִבְךָ 'o·yiv·kha enemy your H341 בְּיָדֶךָ be·ya·de·kha in hand your H3027 וְעַתָּה ve·'a·tah and therefore H6258 אַכֶּנּוּ 'ak·ke·nu let me strike him H5221 נָא na' please H4994 בַּחֲנִית ba·cha·nit with the spear H2595 וּבָאָרֶץ u·va·'a·retz and in the ground H776 פַּעַם pa·'am a time H6471 אַחַת 'a·chat one H259 וְלֹא ve·lo' and not H3808 אֶשְׁנֶה 'esh·neh I will repeat H8138 לוֹ lo to (the) him H9033

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–12

How soon do unholy hearts lose the good impressions convictions have made upon them! How helpless were Saul and all his men! All as though disarmed and chained, yet nothing is done to them; they are only asleep. How easily can God weaken the strongest, befool the wisest, and baffle the most watchful! David still resolved to wait till God thought fit to avenge him on Saul. He will by no means force his way to the promised crown by any wrong methods. The temptation was very strong; but if he yielded, he would sin against God, therefore he resisted the temptation, and trusted God with the event.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.