2 Samuel 15:2
15:2 Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, “What city are you from?” The person would answer, “I, your servant, 1 am from one of the tribes of Israel.”
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?”
1 tn Heb “your servant.” So also in vv. 8, 15, 21.
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.
3 tn Heb “house.”
4 tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.