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People tagged in the matching LV passage: David
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem
OET-LV And_DOM the_people which was_in_it he_brought_out and_he_sawed with_saw and_with_(the)_picks_of (the)_iron and_with_saws and_thus/so/as_follows Dāvid he_did to_all/each/any/every the_cities_of the_people_of ˊAmmōn and_ Dāvid and_all the_people _he_returned Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem).
OET (OET-RV) Then they took all the people out of the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did that to the people from all the Amoni cities, then he returned to Yerushalem with his army.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) He brought out
(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM the,people which/who [was]_in,it brought_out and,he_sawed with,saw and,with_(the),picks_of of_(the),iron and,with,saws and=thus/so/as_follows he/it_made/did Dāvid to=all/each/any/every cities_of sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he_returned Dāvid and=all the,people Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) )
The word “He” refers to David, but also refers to David’s soldiers who helped David do this.
(Occurrence 0) forced them to work with saws and iron picks and axes
(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM the,people which/who [was]_in,it brought_out and,he_sawed with,saw and,with_(the),picks_of of_(the),iron and,with,saws and=thus/so/as_follows he/it_made/did Dāvid to=all/each/any/every cities_of sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he_returned Dāvid and=all the,people Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) )
These terms describe difficult manual labor that the defeated people were forced to do.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) David required all the cities of the people
(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM the,people which/who [was]_in,it brought_out and,he_sawed with,saw and,with_(the),picks_of of_(the),iron and,with,saws and=thus/so/as_follows he/it_made/did Dāvid to=all/each/any/every cities_of sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he_returned Dāvid and=all the,people Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) )
The people are referred to by their city. Alternate translation: [David required all the peoples of the cities]
OET-LV And_DOM the_people which was_in_it he_brought_out and_he_sawed with_saw and_with_(the)_picks_of (the)_iron and_with_saws and_thus/so/as_follows Dāvid he_did to_all/each/any/every the_cities_of the_people_of ˊAmmōn and_ Dāvid and_all the_people _he_returned Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem).
OET (OET-RV) Then they took all the people out of the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. David did that to the people from all the Amoni cities, then he returned to Yerushalem with his army.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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