Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
The second time
General references
Bible References
God
1 Samuel 26:23
The Lord rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. Even though today the Lord delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the Lord's chosen one.
1 Samuel 23:14
David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.
1 Samuel 24:4
David's men said to him, "This is the day about which the Lord said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.'" So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul's robe.
Joshua 21:44
The Lord made them secure, in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could resist them.
Judges 1:4
The men of Judah attacked, and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.
Delivered
1 Samuel 24:18
You have explained today how you have treated me well. The Lord delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the Lord had handed them over?
Psalm 31:8
You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.
Romans 11:32
For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.
The second time
Nahum 1:9
Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.
General references
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.