撒母耳记下 21:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們回答王：“從前破壞我們，謀害我們，要消滅我們，使我們不能在以色列境內立足的那人，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 对 王 说 ： 那 从 前 谋 害 我 们 、 要 灭 我 们 、 使 我 们 不 得 再 住 以 色 列 境 内 的 人 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ During the time David was king, there was a shortage of food that lasted for three years. So David prayed to the Lord . The Lord answered, "Saul and his family of murderers are the reason for this shortage, because he killed the Gibeonites." ² (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites; they were a group of Amorites who were left alive. The Israelites had promised not to hurt the Gibeonites, but Saul had tried to kill them, because he was eager to help the people of Israel and Judah.) King David called the Gibeonites together and spoke to them. ³ He asked, "What can I do for you? How can I make up for the harm done so you can bless the Lord 's people?" ⁴ The Gibeonites said to David, "We cannot demand silver or gold from Saul or his family. And we don't have the right to kill anyone in Israel." Then David asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" ⁵ The Gibeonites said, "Saul made plans against us and tried to destroy all our people who are left in the land of Israel. ⁶ So bring seven of his sons to us. Then we will kill them and hang them on stakes in the presence of the Lord at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the Lord 's chosen king." The king said, "I will give them to you." ⁷ But the king protected Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the promise he had made to Jonathan in the Lord 's name. ⁸ The king did take Armoni and Mephibosheth, sons of Rizpah and Saul. (Rizpah was the daughter of Aiah.) And the king took the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab. (Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite was the father of Merab's five sons.) ⁹ David gave these seven sons to the Gibeonites. Then the Gibeonites killed them and hung them on stakes on a hill in the presence of the Lord . All seven sons died together. They were put to death during the first days of the harvest season at the beginning of barley harvest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The man: 2 Samuel 21:1, Esther 9:24, Esther 9:25, Matthew 7:2

devised: or, cut us off, Daniel 9:26

Cross-References

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.

Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed facedown on the ground and laughed. He said to himself, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth to a child when she is ninety?"

Romans 4:19
Abraham was almost a hundred years old, much past the age for having children, and Sarah could not have children. Abraham thought about all this, but his faith in God did not become weak.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 lives of others:

and that devised against us, [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel; who had formed schemes, and published edicts, for banishing them out of the land; perhaps at the same time that he put away wizards and those that had familiar spirits out of the land, under the same pretence for zeal for the glory of God, and the good of the people of the land, 1 Samuel 28:3.