2 Samuel 21:2 meaning and explanation
At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
2 Samuel 21:2, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator pauses the famine story to explain who the Gibeonites were. They were not Israelites but a remnant of the Amorites, the peoples Israel had been told to displace.
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