InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 1 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 23 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V26 V27 V28 V29
People tagged in the matching LV passage: David · Saul
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Maon (JOS 15:55)
Dictionary: David
OET-LV And_ Shāʼūl/(Saul) and_men_of_his _he/it_went to_seek_him and_people_told to_Dāvid and_he/it_descended the_rock and_he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in_the_wilderness_of Māˊōn and_ Shāʼūl _he/it_listened and_he_pursued after Dāvid the_wilderness_of Māˊōn.
OET (OET-RV) when Sha’ul and his men came to search for them. When David was told, he went further south to a rocky hill therein that wilderness, but Sha’ul also heard that and followed them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ שָׁא֣וּל וַאֲנָשָׁיו֮ לְבַקֵּשׁ֒
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_went Shāʼūl/(Saul) and,men_of,his to,seek_[him] and,people_told to,David and=he/it_descended the,rock and=he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in,the_wilderness_of Māˊōn and=he/it_listened Shāʼūl/(Saul) and,he_pursued after Dāvid wilderness_of Māˊōn )
You could indicate explicitly in your translation whom Saul and his men went to seek if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [And Saul and his men went to seek David]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
וַיַּגִּ֣דוּ לְדָוִ֔ד
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_went Shāʼūl/(Saul) and,men_of,his to,seek_[him] and,people_told to,David and=he/it_descended the,rock and=he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in,the_wilderness_of Māˊōn and=he/it_listened Shāʼūl/(Saul) and,he_pursued after Dāvid wilderness_of Māˊōn )
The author is not using the pronoun they to refer to specific people. Use an expression for this that would be natural in your language. Alternate translation: [And David was told]
OET-LV And_ Shāʼūl/(Saul) and_men_of_his _he/it_went to_seek_him and_people_told to_Dāvid and_he/it_descended the_rock and_he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in_the_wilderness_of Māˊōn and_ Shāʼūl _he/it_listened and_he_pursued after Dāvid the_wilderness_of Māˊōn.
OET (OET-RV) when Sha’ul and his men came to search for them. When David was told, he went further south to a rocky hill therein that wilderness, but Sha’ul also heard that and followed them.
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.