1Sa 26:10 | KD | STEP | When Abishai exclaimed, “ God hath delivered thine enemy into thy hand: now will I pierce him with the spear into the ground with a stroke, and will give no second ” (sc., stroke: the Vulgate rendering gives the sense exactly: et secundo non opus erit, there will be no necessity for a second), David replied, “Destroy him not; for who hath stretched out his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and remained unhurt?” נקּה, as in ; Num 5:31. He then continued (in , ): “As truly as Jehovah liveth, unless Jehovah smite him (i.e., carry him off with a stroke; cf. ), or his day cometh that he dies (i.e., or he dies a natural death; 'his day' denoting the day of death, as in ; ), or he goes into battle and is carried off, far be it from me with Jehovah (מיהוה, as in ) to stretch forth my hand against Jehovah’s anointed.” The apodosis to commences with חלילה, “far be it,” or “the Lord forbid,” in 1Sa 26:11. “Take now the spear which is at his head, and the pitcher, and let us go.”

‏ 1 Samuel 26:10

When Abishai exclaimed, “God hath delivered thine enemy into thy hand: now will I pierce him with the spear into the ground with a stroke, and will give no second” (sc., stroke: the Vulgate rendering gives the sense exactly: et secundo non opus erit, there will be no necessity for a second), David replied, “Destroy him not; for who hath stretched out his hand against the anointed of the Lord, and remained unhurt?” נקּה, as in Exo 21:19; Num 5:31. He then continued (in 1Sa 26:10, 1Sa 26:11): “As truly as Jehovah liveth, unless Jehovah smite him (i.e., carry him off with a stroke; cf. 1Sa 25:38), or his day cometh that he dies (i.e., or he dies a natural death; 'his day' denoting the day of death, as in Job 14:6; Job 15:32), or he goes into battle and is carried off, far be it from me with Jehovah (מיהוה, as in 1Sa 24:7) to stretch forth my hand against Jehovah’s anointed.” The apodosis to 1Sa 26:10 commences with חלילה, “far be it,” or “the Lord forbid,” in 1Sa 26:11. “Take now the spear which is at his head, and the pitcher, and let us go.”