5And 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,


In Context

2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

3 Why David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with which shall I make the atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

4 And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

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,

6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And 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 Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They 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,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5They 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,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5And 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 —