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1 When Saul came back from [fighting] the Philistines, he was told |Now David is in the desert near En Gedi.| 2 Then Saul took 3,000 of the best-trained men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats. 3 He came to some sheep pens along the road where there was a cave. Saul went into [it] to relieve himself while David and his men were sitting further back in the cave. 4 David's men told him, |Today is the day the LORD referred to when he said, 'I'm going to hand your enemy over to you. You will do to him whatever you think is right.' | David quietly got up and cut off the border of Saul's robe. 5 But afterward, David's conscience bothered him because he had cut off the border of Saul's robe. 6 He said to his men, |It would be unthinkable for me to raise my hand against His Majesty, the LORD's anointed king, since he is the LORD's anointed.| 7 So David stopped his men by saying this to them and didn't let them attack Saul. Saul left the cave and went out onto the road. 1 Samuel 24:1-7, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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