1 Samuel 24:18 {19}
Good News Translation
Today you have shown how good you are to me, because you did not kill me, even though the LORD put me in your power.

New Revised Standard Version
Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.

Contemporary English Version
You've told me how you were kind enough not to kill me when the LORD gave you the chance.

New American Bible
You have declared this day how you treated me graciously: the LORD delivered me into your hand and you did not kill me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.

Lord

1 Samuel 24:10 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come into a city that hath gates and bars.

1 Samuel 26:23 And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.

delivered me [heb] shut me up

1 Samuel 23:12 And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into the hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up.

1 Samuel 26:8 And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.

Psalm 31:8 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

Context
David's Oath to Saul
17And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil. 18And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.19For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 26:23
And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 24:19
For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.

1 Samuel 24:17
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