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OET (OET-LV) And_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_made DOM that_which YHWH he_said and_came Bēyt- lehem and_trembled the_elders_of the_city to_meet_him and_he/it_said peace come_you.
OET (OET-RV) So Shemuel did what Yahweh had told him, and went to Bethlehem. The town elders trembled when they met him, and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיֶּחֶרְד֞וּ זִקְנֵ֤י הָעִיר֙
and,trembled elders_of the=city
The author means that the elders of Bethlehem trembled with fear when they saw Samuel coming. See the discussion in the Introduction to this chapter of why they may have done so. Alternate translation: [And the elders of the city trembled with fear]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
שָׁלֹ֥ם בּוֹאֶֽךָ
peace come,you
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of coming, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [Have you come here peaceably] or [Is this a friendly visit]
16:4 the elders . . . came trembling: News of Samuel’s rebuke of Saul and execution of Agag had likely reached Bethlehem.
OET (OET-LV) And_ Shəmūʼēl _he/it_made DOM that_which YHWH he_said and_came Bēyt- lehem and_trembled the_elders_of the_city to_meet_him and_he/it_said peace come_you.
OET (OET-RV) So Shemuel did what Yahweh had told him, and went to Bethlehem. The town elders trembled when they met him, and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
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.