1 Samuel 26:8

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.

God

Judges 1:4

Delivered

The second time

Nahum 1:9

General references

Proverbs 24:11

Bible References

God

May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness and his loyalty. I wasn’t willing to lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed, even though the Lord handed you over to me today.

David then stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul searched for him every day, but God did not hand David over to him.

so they said to him, “Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: ‘I will hand your enemy over to you so you can do to him whatever you desire.’” Then David got up and secretly cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

The Lord gave them rest on every side according to all He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies were able to stand against them, for the Lord handed over all their enemies to them.

When Judah attacked, the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They struck down 10,000 men in Bezek.

Delivered

You yourself have told me today what good you did for me: when the Lord handed me over to you, you didn’t kill me.

How could one man pursue a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?

and have not handed me over to the enemy.
You have set my feet in a spacious place.

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that He may have mercy on all.

The second time

Whatever you plot against the Lord,
He will bring it to complete destruction;
oppression will not rise up a second time.

General references

Rescue those being taken off to death,
and save those stumbling toward slaughter.