1 Samuel 24:9

David Spares Saul In The Cave At En Gedi

⁸ Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself. ⁹ David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’? ¹⁰ Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

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David

Saul

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go about as a slanderer among your people, and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor; I am the Lord.

1 Samuel 26:19

Now therefore, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering; but if it is men, cursed are they before the Lord, for they have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

Psalm 101:5

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

Psalm 141:6

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock,
And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.

Proverbs 16:28

A perverse man spreads strife,
And a slanderer separates intimate friends.

Proverbs 17:4

An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth rain,
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

Proverbs 26:20-22

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22

Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.