21:4 The Gibeonites said to him, “We5 have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family,6 nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked,7 “What then are you asking me to do for you?”
tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading לָנוּ (lanu, “to us”) rather than the MTלִי (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.