8 Abishai whispered to David: "God has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Let me nail him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I will not need to strike him twice!" [AD]

9 But David said to Abishai, "Do not harm him, for who can lay a hand on the Lord's anointed and remain innocent?

10 As the Lord lives," David declared, "only the Lord can strike him: either when the time comes for him to die, or when he goes out and perishes in battle. [2] [AE]