2 Samuel 21:5
New International Version
They answered the king, “As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,

New Living Translation
Then they replied, “It was Saul who planned to destroy us, to keep us from having any place at all in the territory of Israel.

English Standard Version
They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

Berean Standard Bible
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

King James Bible
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

New King James Version
Then they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of Israel,

New American Standard Bible
So they said to the king, “The man who destroyed us and who planned to eliminate us so that we would not exist within any border of Israel—

NASB 1995
So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who planned to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel,

NASB 1977
So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who planned to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel,

Legacy Standard Bible
So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who planned to eradicate us from standing within any border of Israel,

Amplified Bible
So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to exterminate us from remaining in any territory of Israel,

Christian Standard Bible
They replied to the king, “As for the man who annihilated us and plotted to destroy us so we would not exist within the whole territory of Israel,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They replied to the king, “As for the man who annihilated us and plotted to destroy us so we would not exist within the whole territory of Israel,

American Standard Version
And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They said to the King: “The man who destroyed us and planned to destroy us that we would not continue in all the borders of Israel

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he said, What say ye? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
They replied, "Saul tried to kill all our people so that none of us would be left in the land of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.

English Revised Version
And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They answered the king, "Give us seven of the male descendants of the man who wanted to finish us off. He planned to wipe us out to keep us from staying anywhere in Israel's territory.

Good News Translation
They answered, "Saul wanted to destroy us and leave none of us alive anywhere in Israel.

International Standard Version
They told the king, "The man who consumed us, who planned our destruction—intending to leave us with nothing in the territory of Israel—

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

Literal Standard Version
And they say to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us—we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel—

Majority Standard Bible
And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

New American Bible
They said to the king, “As for the man who was exterminating us and who intended to destroy us that we might have no place in all the territory of Israel,

NET Bible
They replied to the king, "As for this man who exterminated us and who schemed against us so that we were destroyed and left without status throughout all the borders of Israel--

New Revised Standard Version
They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel—

New Heart English Bible
They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

Webster's Bible Translation
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining within the borders of Israel,

World English Bible
They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
And they say unto the king, 'The man who consumed us, and who devised against us -- we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel --

Additional Translations ...
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Context
David Avenges the Gibeonites
4The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied. 5And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel, 6let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 21:1
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites."

2 Samuel 21:6
let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD." "I will give them to you," said the king.


Treasury of Scripture

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

The man

2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Esther 9:24,25
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; …

Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

devised.

Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

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2 Samuel 21
1. The three year Gibeonite famine ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons.
10. Rizpah's kindness unto the dead
12. David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's tomb
15. Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four men of David slay four giants.














Verse 5. - The man that consumed us, etc. The strong language of this verse makes it plain that Saul had been guilty, not merely of some one great act of cruelty, but of a long series of barbarities intended to bring about their utter extirpation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And they answered
וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

the king,
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

“As for the man
הָאִישׁ֙ (hā·’îš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

who
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

consumed us
כִּלָּ֔נוּ (kil·lā·nū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

and
וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (wa·’ă·šer)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

plotted
דִּמָּה־ (dim·māh-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider

against us
לָ֑נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

to exterminate us
נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ (niš·maḏ·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 8045: To be exterminated or destroyed

from existing
מֵֽהִתְיַצֵּ֖ב (mê·hiṯ·yaṣ·ṣêḇ)
Preposition-m | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3320: To set or station oneself, take one's stand

within any
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

border
גְּבֻ֥ל (gə·ḇul)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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