1 Samuel 26:10
Good News Translation
By the living LORD," David continued, "I know that the LORD himself will kill Saul, either when his time comes to die a natural death or when he dies in battle.

New Revised Standard Version
David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down; or his day will come to die; or he will go down into battle and perish.

Contemporary English Version
As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD will kill Saul, or Saul will die a natural death or be killed in battle.

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

the Lord liveth

1 Samuel 24:15 Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

1 Samuel 25:26,38 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. . . .

Psalm 94:1,2,23 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. . . .

Luke 18:7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

Romans 12:19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Revelation 18:8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.

his day

Genesis 47:29 And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

Job 7:1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Job 14:5,14 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. . . .

Psalm 37:10,13 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

he shall descend

1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

Deuteronomy 32:35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

Context
David Again Spares Saul
9And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? 10And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:11The Lord be merciful unto me, and keep me that I never put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed. But now take the spear which is at his head, and the cup of water, and let us go.…
Cross References
Romans 12:19
Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 10:30
For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

Genesis 47:29
And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:14
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

Deuteronomy 32:35
Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

1 Samuel 24:12
The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

1 Samuel 25:26
Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord.

1 Samuel 25:38
And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

1 Samuel 31:6
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

Psalm 37:13
But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day shall come.

1 Samuel 26:9
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