2 Samuel 21:5
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,
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And they answered the king,.... Declaring expressly what they would have done: the man that consumed us; meaning Saul, who lessened their number by cruel oppressions of some, and by taking away the…
Here I. Were are told of the injury which Saul had, long before this, done to the Gibeonites, which we had no account of in the history of his reign, nor should we have heard of it here but that it…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
devised This, and not the marginal alternative cut us off, is the right rendering.
in any of the coasts In all the borders. Coast, from costa, a rib or side, originally meant any border or…