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OET (OET-LV) and_pressed the_Emori DOM the_descendants of_Dān the_hill_country_into if/because not allow_them to_come_down to_the_plain.
OET (OET-RV) The Amorites forced Dan’s descendants to live in the hill country, because they didn’t allow them to come down to the plains.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וַיִּלְחֲצ֧וּ הָאֱמֹרִ֛י אֶת־בְּנֵי־דָ֖ן הָהָ֑רָה כִּי־לֹ֥א נְתָנ֖וֹ לָרֶ֥דֶת לָעֵֽמֶק
and,pressed the=Emori DOM sons_of Dān the,hill_country,into that/for/because/then/when not allow,them to,come_down to_the,plain
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: “And the Amorites did not allow the sons of Dan to go down into the valley, so they were pressed into the hill country”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אֶת־בְּנֵי־דָ֖ן
DOM sons_of Dān
See how you translated the expression “the sons of Judah” in 1:16. Alternate translation: “the people of Dan”
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
לֹ֥א נְתָנ֖וֹ
not allow,them
The pronoun he refers to the Amorite, and the pronoun him refers to the sons of Dan (as if they were a single individual, their ancestor Dan). It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “the Amorites did not allow the people of Dan”
1:34 Dan’s failure to take the land represents total infidelity and led to the complete abandonment of a portion of the Promised Land (chs 17–18).
OET (OET-LV) and_pressed the_Emori DOM the_descendants of_Dān the_hill_country_into if/because not allow_them to_come_down to_the_plain.
OET (OET-RV) The Amorites forced Dan’s descendants to live in the hill country, because they didn’t allow them to come down to the plains.
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.