2 Samuel 21:3-5

Common English Bible

³ David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you? How can I fix matters so you can benefit from the Lord’s inheritance?”

⁴ The Gibeonites said to him, “We don’t want any silver or gold from Saul or his family, and it isn’t our right to have anyone in Israel killed.”

“What do you want?”^[a] David asked. “I’ll do it for you.”

⁵ “Okay then,” they said to the king. “That man who opposed and oppressed^[b] us, who planned to destroy us, keeping us from having a place to live anywhere in Israel—