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Then David also went out of the cave and yelled after Saul, “My master the king!” Saul looked back, and David bowed low out of respect, nose to the ground.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen when people say, ‘David wants to ruin you’? 10 Look! Today your own eyes have seen that the Lord handed you over to me in the cave. But I refused[a] to kill you. I spared you, saying, ‘I won’t lift a hand against my master because he is the Lord’s anointed.’

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  1. 1 Samuel 24:10 LXX; MT Some said

Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.(A) He said to Saul, “Why do you listen(B) when men say, ‘David is bent on harming(C) you’? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared(D) you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.’

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