KJV King James Version
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
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1 Samuel 26:6
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
WEB World English Bible
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”
ASV American Standard Version
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And David answereth and saith unto Ahimelech the Hittite, and unto Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, ‘Who doth go down with me unto Saul, unto the camp?’ and Abishai saith, ‘I—I go down with thee.’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 26
3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless?
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וַיַּ֨עַןH6030 · unto dwellדָּוִ֜דH1732 · da.vidDavidוַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀H559 · a.marto sayאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲחִימֶ֣לֶךְH288 · a.chi.me.lekhAhimelechהַחִתִּ֗יH2850 · chit.tiHittiteוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲבִישַׁ֨יH52 · a.vi.shayAbishaiבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childצְרוּיָ֜הH6870 · tse.ru.yahZeruiahאֲחִ֤יH251 · achbrother: male-siblingיוֹאָב֙H3097 · yo.avJoabלֵאמֹ֔רH559 · a.marto sayמִֽי־H4310 · miwho?יֵרֵ֥דH3381 · ya.radto go downאִתִּ֛יH854 · etwithאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)שָׁא֖וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaulאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הH4264 · ma.cha.nehcampוַיֹּ֣אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayאֲבִישַׁ֔יH52 · a.vi.shayAbishaiאֲנִ֖יH589 · a.niIאֵרֵ֥דH3381 · ya.radto go downעִמָּֽךְ׃H5973 · imwith
Cross-references
Judges 7:10-11But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:2 Samuel 2:18And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.2 Samuel 18:5And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.1 Chronicles 2:15-16Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:2 Samuel 16:9-10Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.2 Samuel 23:39Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.2 Samuel 11:6And David sent to Joab, [saying], Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.2 Samuel 23:18And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them], and had the name among three.2 Samuel 11:21Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.Genesis 15:20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,Genesis 10:15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,1 Samuel 14:6-7And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.2 Samuel 11:24And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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