2 Samuel 21:5

WEB

They 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,

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,

Commentary

And they answered the king,.... Declaring expressly what they would have done: the man that consumed us; meaning Saul, wh o 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, Sa1 28:3 .