1 SAMUEL 26:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
Then Abishai said to David, 'God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice' — Abishai's proposal ('naggaʿ-nāʾ naʿqāb-ô ḥannît ʿāres') invokes divine will ('nᵉtānô ʾelohîm ʿal-yādᵉkhā') as justification for execution. His confidence in a single lethal stroke shows the skill of the warrior, but reveals spiritual blindness regarding God's intention.
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