OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 26:8

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Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

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Verse 8. My. Hebrew “the spear,” which was fixed in the ground at Saul’s pillow. Prot. “let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth, at once, and I will not smite him a second time.” Bible.

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