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Then Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear ^[c]to the ground with one stroke, and I will not ^[d]strike him the second time."

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for ⁽ⁱ⁾who can stretch out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be without guilt?"

David also said, "As the Lord lives, ^(j)surely the Lord will strike him, or ^(k)his day will come that he dies, or ^(l)he will go down into battle and perish.

^(m)The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go."