2 Samuel 21:5 (BSB)

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

From 2 Samuel 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:1-9: Here I. Were are told of the injury which Saul had, long before this, done to the Gibeonites, which we had no account of in the history of his reign, nor should we have heard of it here but that it came now to be reckoned for.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 21:5: 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...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on 2 Samuel 21:1-10: After the suppression of the rebellion headed by Sheba, David spent the remaining years of his reign in establishing the kingdom upon a firmer basis, partly by organizing the army, the administration of justice, and the general government of the realm, and partly by making preparations for the erection of the temple, and enacting rules for the service of the Levites; that he might be...