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People tagged in the matching LV passage: David · Saul
Dictionary: David
OET-LV And_ Shāʼūl _he/it_commanded DOM servant_of_his[fn] speak to Dāvid in_secrecy to_say HERE he_delights in_you the_king and_all servants_of_his they_love_you and_now be_son-in-law to_king.
18:22 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sha’ul commanded his servants, “Tell David privately, ‘Listen, the king is pleased with you, and all of us his servants love you. So now we think that you should become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
דַּבְּר֨וּ אֶל־דָּוִ֤ד בַּלָּט֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנֵּ֨ה חָפֵ֤ץ בְּךָ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וְכָל־עֲבָדָ֖יו אֲהֵב֑וּךָ וְעַתָּ֖ה הִתְחַתֵּ֥ן בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_commanded Shāʼūl/(Saul) DOM servant_of,his speak to/towards Dāvid in,secrecy to=say see/lo/see! pleased in,you the=king and=all servants_of,his they,love_you and=now become_~_son-in-law to,king )
If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [Speak to David in secrecy and tell him to consider that the king delights in him and that all of his servants love him, so he should make himself a son-in-law of the king]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
בַּלָּט֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_commanded Shāʼūl/(Saul) DOM servant_of,his speak to/towards Dāvid in,secrecy to=say see/lo/see! pleased in,you the=king and=all servants_of,his they,love_you and=now become_~_son-in-law to,king )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of secrecy, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [secretly]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
הִנֵּ֨ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_commanded Shāʼūl/(Saul) DOM servant_of,his speak to/towards Dāvid in,secrecy to=say see/lo/see! pleased in,you the=king and=all servants_of,his they,love_you and=now become_~_son-in-law to,king )
See how you translated this expression in 18:17. Alternate translation: [Consider that]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְעַתָּ֖ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_commanded Shāʼūl/(Saul) DOM servant_of,his speak to/towards Dāvid in,secrecy to=say see/lo/see! pleased in,you the=king and=all servants_of,his they,love_you and=now become_~_son-in-law to,king )
See how you translated the expression “And now” in 6:7. Alternate translation: [So this is what you should do]
OET-LV And_ Shāʼūl _he/it_commanded DOM servant_of_his[fn] speak to Dāvid in_secrecy to_say HERE he_delights in_you the_king and_all servants_of_his they_love_you and_now be_son-in-law to_king.
18:22 OSHB note: We have abandoned or added a ketib/qere relative to BHS. In doing this we agree with L against BHS.
OET (OET-RV) Then Sha’ul commanded his servants, “Tell David privately, ‘Listen, the king is pleased with you, and all of us his servants love you. So now we think that you should become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”
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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