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

And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.

And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands

And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.

And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands.

And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.

Delivered

And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

The second time

What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

General references

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.