2 Samuel 21:5 meaning and explanation
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,
2 Samuel 21:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The Gibeonites are answering King David during a three year famine that the LORD had attributed to Saul's bloodshed against them. They are a remnant of the Amorites, a people Israel had sworn to spare, yet Saul in his zeal had tried to wipe them out.
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