Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother (A)Abishai the son of Zeruiah, (B)“Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within (C)the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground (D)at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. Then Abishai said to David, (E)“God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”

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