23. The Lord repays everyone’s righteousness and faithfulness. Although the Lord delivered you into my hands today, I could not lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed.
24. Just as I regarded your life as precious today, so may the Lord regard my life as precious and deliver me from all dangers.”
25. Then Saul said to David: “Blessed are you, my son David! You shall certainly succeed in whatever you undertake.” David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.