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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Josiah (KI1 13:2)
OET-LV And_ Yoʼshiyyāh/(Josiah) _he_turned and_he/it_saw DOM the_graves which were_there on_mountain and_he_sent and_he/it_took DOM the_bones from the_graves and_he_burnt_them on the_altar and_he_made_it_unclean according_to_the_message_of YHWH which the_man_of the_ʼElohīm who he_proclaimed DOM the_words/messages the_these he_had_proclaimed.
OET (OET-RV) As Yoshiyah turned around, he noticed some graves that were there on the hillside, so he had some bones removed from the graves, and he burnt them on the altar to desecrate it. This fulfilled what Yahweh had said through the man of God who’d proclaimed these things.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
כִּדְבַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_turned Yoʼshiyyāh/(Josiah) and=he/it_saw DOM the,graves which/who there on,mountain and,he_sent and=he/it_took DOM the,bones from/more_than the,graves and,he_burned_[them] on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,altar and,he,made_it_unclean according,to_the_word_of YHWH which/who he/it_called (a)_man the=ʼElohīm which/who he/it_called DOM the,words the=these )
See how you translated the similar expression in 1:7. Alternate translation: [according to the message from Yahweh]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
אֲשֶׁ֤ר קָרָא֙ אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר קָרָ֔א אֶת־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_turned Yoʼshiyyāh/(Josiah) and=he/it_saw DOM the,graves which/who there on,mountain and,he_sent and=he/it_took DOM the,bones from/more_than the,graves and,he_burned_[them] on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,altar and,he,made_it_unclean according,to_the_word_of YHWH which/who he/it_called (a)_man the=ʼElohīm which/who he/it_called DOM the,words the=these )
It might seem that this expression contains extra information that would not be natural to express in your language. If so, you can shorten it. Alternate translation: [about these things that the man of God had proclaimed]
OET-LV And_ Yoʼshiyyāh/(Josiah) _he_turned and_he/it_saw DOM the_graves which were_there on_mountain and_he_sent and_he/it_took DOM the_bones from the_graves and_he_burnt_them on the_altar and_he_made_it_unclean according_to_the_message_of YHWH which the_man_of the_ʼElohīm who he_proclaimed DOM the_words/messages the_these he_had_proclaimed.
OET (OET-RV) As Yoshiyah turned around, he noticed some graves that were there on the hillside, so he had some bones removed from the graves, and he burnt them on the altar to desecrate it. This fulfilled what Yahweh had said through the man of God who’d proclaimed these things.
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.
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