They said to him, "This is your chance! The LORD has told you that he would put your enemy in your power and you could do to him whatever you wanted to." David crept over and cut off a piece of Saul's robe without Saul's knowing it.

Abishai said to David, "God has put your enemy in your power tonight. Now let me plunge his own spear through him and pin him to the ground with just one blow---I won't have to strike twice!"

But David said, "You must not harm him! The LORD will certainly punish whoever harms his chosen king.

"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."