2 Samuel 21:5
World English Bible (WEB)
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,
In context
3 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?”
4 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
5 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,
6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” The king said, “I will give them.”
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:5 in every translation
- WEB 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,
- KJV King James Version
- 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,
- BSB 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,
- ASV 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,
- YLT 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 —
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel,
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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,