1 Samuel 26:15-16   New International Version     15 David said, “You’re a man, aren’t you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn’t you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king. 16 What you have done is not good. As surely as...

1 Samuel 26:9   New International Version     9 But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless? David refused to kill Saul. Why?? God had placed Saul in power and had yet to remove him. David chose not to push...

1 Samuel 26:8   New International Version     8 Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won’t strike him twice.” The strongest moral decisions come when you make the...

1 Samuel 26:5-9   New International Version     5 Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him....

1 Samuel 25:23-38   New International Version     23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what...

1 Samuel 25:1-11   New International Version     David and Nabal 25 Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran. 2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there...