2 Samuël 21:5

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Hierop zeiden zij tot den koning: De man die ons van kant maakte en van zins was ons uit te roeien, zodat wij nergens in Israels ganse gebied konden blijven,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen zeiden zij tot den koning: Den man, die ons verdorven en te niet gemaakt heeft, zullen wij verdelgen, zo dat er voor hem niets overblijft in al de grenspalen van Isral.

Staten Vertaling
En zij zeiden tot den koning: De man die ons te niet gemaakt, en tegen ons gedacht heeft, dat wij zouden verdelgd worden, zonder te kunnen bestaan in enige landpale van Israel;

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

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.