Teks -- 2 Samuel 21:2 (NET)

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 21:2 - Sought

That is, he sought how he might cut them off with some colour of justice, aggravating their faults, and punishing them worse than they deserved; oppressing them with excessive labours, and intending by degrees to wear them out.

JFB: 2Sa 21:2 - in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah

Under pretense of a rigorous and faithful execution of the divine law regarding the extermination of the Canaanites, he set himself to expel or destroy those whom Joshua had been deceived into sparing. His real object seems to have been, that the possessions of the Gibeonites, being forfeited to the crown, might be divided among his own people (compare 1Sa 22:7). At all events, his proceeding against this people was in violation of a solemn oath, and involving national guilt. The famine was, in the wise and just retribution of Providence, made a national punishment, since the Hebrews either assisted in the massacre, or did not interpose to prevent it; since they neither endeavored to repair the wrong, nor expressed any horror of it; and since a general protracted chastisement might have been indispensable to inspire a proper respect and protection to the Gibeonite remnant that survived.

Clarke: 2Sa 21:2 - The remnant of the Amorites

The remnant of the Amorites - The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Jos 11:19 : but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general, Gen 15:16; Amo 2:9, and elsewhere.

TSK: 2Sa 21:2 - now the // the Amorites // in his zeal

now the : Josh. 9:3-21

the Amorites : The Gibeonites were Hivites, not Amorites, as appears from Jos 6:19; but Amorites is a name often given to the Canaanites in general. Gen 15:16

in his zeal : Deu 7:16; 1Sa 14:44, 1Sa 15:8, 1Sa 15:9; 2Ki 10:16, 2Ki 10:31; Luk 9:54, Luk 9:55; Joh 16:2; Rom 10:2; Gal 4:17

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 21:2 - Saul sought to slay them // In his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah

Saul sought to slay them i. e. he sought occasions and pretences how he might cut them off with some colour of law or justice, diligently searching out and aggravating their faults, and punishing them worse than they deserved; oppressing them with excessive labours, and openly killing some of them, and intending by degrees to wear them out.

In his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah conceiving, or rather pretending, that it was not for the honour, nor comfort, nor advantage of God’ s people, to nourish any of that viperous broad in their bosoms; and that howsoever Joshua and the princes which then were, had by their fraud been drawn into an oath to preserve them, Jos 9:15 , yet in truth that oath was contrary to God’ s command, Exo 23:32 Deu 7:2 , and therefore (as he thought) not to be observed. This was his pretence. But how little zeal he had for God, or for the public good of his people, is evident by the whole course of his life; and therefore it is more than probable he had some particular motive or design in the case; either because some of them had highly provoked him, for whose sake he would be revenged of the whole race; or because, they being cut off, their estates might be forfeited to the crown; or for some other reason now unknown.

Haydock: 2Sa 21:2 - Amorrhites // Juda

Amorrhites, by which name all the nations of Chanaan were frequently designated, Genesis xv. 16. (Menochius) ---

They were properly Hevites. ---

Juda. As if Josue, and all succeeding governors, had acted wrong, Exodus xxiii. 33., and Josue vi. 19. Saul ought, at least, to have consulted God. (Calmet)

Gill: 2Sa 21:2 - And the king called the Gibeonites // and said unto them // (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel // but of the remnant of the Amorites // and the children of Israel had sworn unto them // and Saul, contrary to this oath, sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah)

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 2Sa 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 Jos 9:7,

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 2Sa 4:2, compared with Jos 9:17.