2 Samuel 21:2

2 Los gabaonitas no pertenecían a la nación de Israel, sino que eran un remanente de los amorreos. Los israelitas habían hecho un pacto con ellos, pero tanto era el celo de Saúl por Israel y Judá que trató de exterminarlos. Entonces David convocó a los gabaonitas

2 Samuel 21:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 21:2

And the king called the Gibeonites
Sent messengers unto them, and summoned them to come to him,

and said unto them;
what is expressed in ( 2 Samuel 21:3 ) ; for what follows is in a parenthesis:

(now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel;
originally, though they were proselyted to the Jewish religion, and were employed in the menial services of the sanctuary:

but of the remnant of the Amorites;
they were the remains of the old Canaanites, who sometimes in general were called Amorites, otherwise the Gibeonites were called Hivites; see ( Joshua 9:7 ) ( 11:19 ) ;

and the children of Israel had sworn unto them;
by their princes, as Joshua; yet,

and Saul, contrary to this oath, sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah);
pretending a great concern for them, for their honour and profit; that these men ought not to live in their cities, and take the bread out of their mouths, and be employed in the service of the sanctuary; but that they ought to be expelled, and even cut off, being the old inhabitants of the land, the Lord ordered to be destroyed; and that though the Israelites had given an oath to the contrary, they were drawn into it by guile and deceit, and therefore not binding upon them; hence he sought by all means to harass and oppress them, and slew many of them, and destroyed them out of their cities, that they might be possessed by Judah and Benjamin; see ( 2 Samuel 4:2 ) , compared with ( Joshua 9:17 ) .

2 Samuel 21:2 In-Context

1 Durante el reinado de David hubo tres años consecutivos de hambre. David le pidió ayuda al SEÑOR, y él le contestó: «Esto sucede porque Saúl y su sanguinaria familia asesinaron a los gabaonitas».

2 Los gabaonitas no pertenecían a la nación de Israel, sino que eran un remanente de los amorreos. Los israelitas habían hecho un pacto con ellos, pero tanto era el celo de Saúl por Israel y Judá que trató de exterminarlos. Entonces David convocó a los gabaonitas

3 y les preguntó:—¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes? ¿Cómo puedo reparar el mal que se les ha hecho, de modo que bendigan al pueblo que es herencia del SEÑOR?

4 Los gabaonitas respondieron:—No nos interesa el dinero de Saúl y de su familia, ni tampoco queremos que muera alguien en Israel.—Entonces, ¿qué desean que haga por ustedes? —volvió a preguntar el rey.

5 —Saúl quiso destruirnos —contestaron ellos—; se propuso exterminarnos y nos expulsó de todo el territorio israelita.