2 SAMUEL 21:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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 sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)”
So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them — (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the people of Israel had sworn an oath to them, but Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah) — David recognizes that the Gibeonites had a covenant with Israel (made in Joshua 9). Saul's attempt to destroy them violated this solemn oath. The parenthetical note explains that Saul's violence was motivated by misguided zeal (*qina*—zealousness, jealousy), suggesting that his attempt to protect Israel from non-Israelites was religiously motivated but fundamentally unjust.
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