1 Samuel 26:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁶ This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord’s anointed. See now, where is the king’s spear or the water jar that was at his head?”

¹⁷ Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”^{(A) 18} And he added, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?^(B)