The Meaning of 2 Samuel 21:5 Explained

2 Samuel 21:5

KJV: 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,

YLT: And 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 --

Darby: And 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,

ASV: And 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,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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, 

What does 2 Samuel 21:5 Mean?

Context Summary

2 Samuel 21:1-11 - A Devoted Mother
The time of this famine cannot be fixed with certainty. Probably it took place before Absalom's rebellion. The reason for it was found in Saul's slaughter of the Gibeonites. See 1 Samuel 22:19, etc. Though their fathers had obtained the promise of immunity from Joshua and the princes by fraud, yet it was regarded as binding, and its violation was looked upon as a grave offense, involving the whole nation in the charge of perjury. The remnant of the Gibeonites were therefore allowed to fix their own terms. This tendency to connect a national calamity with a national crime has always obtained. There seems to be a universal consciousness that uncaused judgments do not befall.
Note that Merab should be substituted for Michal, 2 Samuel 21:8; 1 Samuel 18:19. Out of all the scenes of cruelty and blood with which this age was characterized, the love of motherhood shines forth undimmed. It is one of the most precious of God's gifts to man. But what shall we not say of that divine love which clings to us in our most hopeless condition? [source]

Chapter Summary: 2 Samuel 21

1  The three year Gibeonite famine ceases, by hanging seven of Saul's sons
10  Rizpah's kindness unto the dead
12  David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's tomb
15  Four battles against the Philistines, wherein four men of David slay four giants

What do the individual words in 2 Samuel 21:5 mean?

And they answered unto the king as for the man who consumed us and plotted against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of Israel
וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ הָאִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר כִּלָּ֔נוּ וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּמָּה־ לָ֑נוּ נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ מֵֽהִתְיַצֵּ֖ב בְּכָל־ גְּבֻ֥ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙  And  they  answered 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
אֶל־  unto 
Parse: Preposition
Root: אֶל  
Sense: to, toward, unto (of motion).
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ  the  king 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מֶלֶךְ 
Sense: king.
הָאִישׁ֙  as  for  the  man 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
כִּלָּ֔נוּ  consumed  us 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular, first person common plural
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
דִּמָּה־  plotted 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּמָה  
Sense: to be like, resemble.
לָ֑נוּ  against  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural
נִשְׁמַ֕דְנוּ  [that]  we  should  be  destroyed 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: שָׁמַד  
Sense: to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated.
מֵֽהִתְיַצֵּ֖ב  from  remaining 
Parse: Preposition-m, Verb, Hitpael, Infinitive construct
Root: יָצַב 
Sense: to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself.
בְּכָל־  in  any 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
גְּבֻ֥ל  of  the  territories 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: גְּבוּל  
Sense: border, territory.
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.

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