2 Samuel 1:14
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New International Version (©2011)
David asked him, "Why weren't you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Why were you not afraid to kill the LORD's anointed one?" David asked.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
David questioned him, "How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
At this David asked him, "How is it that you weren't afraid to raise your hand to strike the LORD's anointed?"

NET Bible (©2006)
David replied to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David asked, "Why weren't you afraid to take it upon yourself to destroy the LORD's anointed king?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And David said unto him, How were you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

American King James Version
And David said to him, How were you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?

American Standard Version
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed?

Douay-Rheims Bible
David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed?

Darby Bible Translation
And David said to him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed?

English Revised Version
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to put forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

Webster's Bible Translation
And David said to him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

World English Bible
David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

Young's Literal Translation
And David saith unto him, 'How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the anointed of Jehovah?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:11-16 David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, laid so heavily upon Israel by this defeat. The man who brought the tidings, David put to death, as a murderer of his prince. David herein did not do unjustly; the Amalekite confessed the crime. If he did as he said, he deserved to die for treason; and his lying to David, if indeed it were a lie, proved, as sooner or later that sin will prove, lying against himself. Hereby David showed himself zealous for public justice, without regard to his own private interest.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David said unto him, how, wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand,.... By which it should seem that he did more than stand upon him, and press his body, that the spear might pierce through him, but that he drew his sword, and slew him; so David understood him, and is the sense of the phrase in 1 Samuel 17:51,

to destroy the Lord's anointed? a reason why David did not destroy him, when it was in the power of his hands, and which he made use of to dissuade others from it; and here charges it not only as a criminal, but a daring action in this young man, at which he expresses his admiration how he could do it; hereby representing it as a very shocking and detestable action; see 1 Samuel 24:6.

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David Learns of Saul's Death
…13And David said to the young man that told him, From where are you? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14And David said to him, How were you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed? 15And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall on him. And he smote him that he died.

1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance?
1 Samuel 12:3 Here I stand. Testify against me in the presence of the LORD and his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes? If I have done any of these things, I will make it right."
1 Samuel 24:6 He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the LORD."
1 Samuel 26:9 But David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?
1 Samuel 26:11 But the LORD forbid that I should lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. Now get the spear and water jug that are near his head, and let's go."
Lamentations 4:20 The LORD's anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.