4 And David’s men began to say to him: “Here is the day on which Jehovah does say to you, ‘Look! I am giving your enemy into your hand,+ and you must do to him just as it may seem good in your eyes.’”+ So David rose up and quietly cut off the skirt of the sleeveless coat that belonged to Saul.

10 Here this day your eyes have seen how Jehovah gave you today into my hand in the cave; and someone said to kill+ you, but I felt sorry for you and said, ‘I shall not thrust out my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed+ of Jehovah.’

8 A·bishʹai now said to David: “God* has today surrendered your enemy into your hand.+ And now let me, please, pin him to the earth with the spear just once, and I shall not do it to him twice.”