When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.” 1Sa 23:28-291Sa 23:19Ezk 22:9Hos 7:3Pro 25:5Pro 29:12 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. 1Sa 26:21Sa 13:2Psa 104:18Psa 141:6Psa 37:32Psa 38:12 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave. Jdg 3:24Psa 142:1-7Psa 57:1-11Psa 141:6 David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly. 1Sa 26:8-111Sa 24:101Sa 26:231Sa 25:28-301Sa 23:171Sa 23:71Sa 24:182Sa 4:8 Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt. 2Sa 24:101Jn 3:20-212Ki 22:192Sa 12:9 He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.” 2Sa 1:141Sa 26:9-11Job 31:29-30Rom 12:141Ki 21:31Th 5:15Mat 5:44 So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. Mat 5:44Psa 7:41Sa 25:33Rom 12:17-21 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” 1Sa 25:23-241Sa 20:411Sa 26:17Exo 20:12Gen 17:3Rom 13:71Pe 2:17
When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and showed respect. David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’? Ecc 7:21-22Pro 29:121Sa 26:19Jas 3:6Lev 19:16Pro 16:28Pro 17:4Pro 18:8 Behold, today your eyes have seen how the LORD had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’ 1Sa 24:4Psa 105:151Sa 26:8-9 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it. 1Sa 26:201Sa 23:141Sa 23:231Sa 26:182Ki 5:13Jhn 15:251Sa 18:27Ezk 13:18 May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you. Jdg 11:27Psa 43:1Psa 35:1Gen 16:51Pe 2:23Job 5:8Psa 94:1Rom 12:19 As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you. Mat 7:20Mat 7:16-18Mat 12:33-34Mat 15:19 Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? 1Sa 26:201Sa 17:432Sa 9:81Ki 21:72Sa 16:92Sa 3:8Jdg 8:1-32Sa 6:20 May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.” Psa 43:1Psa 119:154Psa 35:11Sa 24:12Mic 7:92Ch 24:22Mic 1:21Sa 26:4
It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice and wept. 1Sa 26:17Act 6:10Gen 33:4Job 6:25Luk 21:15Pro 15:1Pro 25:11 He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you. Mat 5:441Sa 26:21Gen 38:26Rom 12:20-21Exo 9:27Mat 27:4Psa 37:6 You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when the LORD had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me. 1Sa 26:231Sa 23:121Sa 23:71Sa 24:101Sa 26:8Psa 31:8 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the LORD reward you good for that which you have done to me today. 1Sa 23:211Sa 26:25Jdg 17:2Pro 25:21-22Psa 18:20 Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. 1Sa 23:172Sa 3:17-18Mat 2:3-61Sa 13:141Sa 20:30-31Job 15:25Mat 2:13Mat 2:16 Swear now therefore to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.” Gen 21:232Sa 21:6-81Sa 20:14-17Gen 31:48Gen 31:53Heb 6:16
David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. 1Sa 23:29Jhn 2:24Mat 10:16-17Pro 26:24-25