(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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1 Samuel 26:6–12, “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. 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. 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. And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD’S anointed, and be guiltless? David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go. So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.”
When David saw that the king and his troops had camped for the night, he asked two of his bravest men if they would like to come down the camp with him. David and Abishai, one of the men, moved with stealth until they stood right next to Saul. He was lying in his deep sleep and his senior general, Abner, was also asleep nearby. Of course, David and Abishai didn’t know that the Lord had made Saul and his men fall into this deep sleep so they were acting with great courage and faith. Abishai was delighted and told David that he was willing to kill king Saul there and then. He would only have to strike once and David would be free from his great enemy, the man who was determined to kill David. David had a high regard for the Lord and for the fact that Saul was the Lord’s anointed. He refused to kill the man that the Lord had anointed as king over Israel. If the Lord was going to keep His promise that David would be king then David would not act as the agent of Saul’s demise. As they looked at Saul they saw his water bottle and his spear right next to Saul’s pillow so they took those two trophies and went back to their own camp.
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