2 Samuel 3:21

3:21 Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement ¹  with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.

2 Samuel 21:4

21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We ²  have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, ³  nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, ⁴  “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

[3:21]  ¹ tn After the cohortatives, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.

[21:4]  ² tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MT לִי (li, “to me”). But for a contrary opinion see S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel, 53, 350.

[21:4]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[21:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.