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 C23 C24 C25 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31
1 Sam 26 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Abishai · Abner · David · Saul
Dictionary: David
OET-LV And_ Dāvid and_ʼAⱱīshay _he_went to the_people night and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE Shāʼūl was_lying sleeping in_camp and_spear_of_his was_thrust in/on_the_earth mmm[fn] and_ʼAⱱnēr and_the_people were_lying mmm[fn].
OET (OET-RV) So that night David and Avishay crept into the camp. Sha’ul was asleep there in the centre with his spear stuck into the ground near his head, and Avner and others were lying in a circle around him.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְהִנֵּ֣ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_went Dāvid and,Abishai to/towards the,people night and=see/lo/see! Shāʼūl/(Saul) lying asleep in,camp and,spear_of,his stuck in/on_the=earth מראשת,ו and,Abner and,the,people lying סביבת,ו )
The author is using the term behold to focus his readers’ attention on what he is about to say. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation. See how you translated the term in 2:31.
Note 2 topic: translate-symaction
וַחֲנִית֥וֹ מְעוּכָֽה־בָאָ֖רֶץ מראשתו
and,spear_of,his stuck in/on_the=earth מראשת,ו
Displaying the spear in this way was a symbolic action that identified Saul as the king, similarly to the way Saul held this spear in his hand in 22:6 when he was holding court. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: [and his spear was pressed into the ground by his head to identify him as the king]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
וַחֲנִית֥וֹ מְעוּכָֽה־בָאָ֖רֶץ
and,spear_of,his stuck in/on_the=earth
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [and he had pressed his spear into the ground]
OET-LV And_ Dāvid and_ʼAⱱīshay _he_went to the_people night and_BEHOLD/LO/SEE Shāʼūl was_lying sleeping in_camp and_spear_of_his was_thrust in/on_the_earth mmm[fn] and_ʼAⱱnēr and_the_people were_lying mmm[fn].
OET (OET-RV) So that night David and Avishay crept into the camp. Sha’ul was asleep there in the centre with his spear stuck into the ground near his head, and Avner and others were lying in a circle around him.
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.