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 2 Sam C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
2 Sam 14 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Absalom
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem
Dictionary: Jerusalem
OET-LV And_ ʼAⱱīshālōm _he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in_Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) two_years days and_the_face_of the_king not he_saw.
OET (OET-RV) Avshalom lived in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for two years without ever getting to see the king,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
שְׁנָתַ֣יִם יָמִ֑ים
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_sat_down//remained//lived ʼAⱱīshālōm in,Jerusalem two_years days and,the_face_of the=king not see )
The author is using two years, days as a common expression of his culture to mean “two full years.” If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [two full years]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וּפְנֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֹ֥א רָאָֽה
and,the_face_of (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_sat_down//remained//lived ʼAⱱīshālōm in,Jerusalem two_years days and,the_face_of the=king not see )
See how you translated the similar expression in 14:24. Alternate translation: [but he did not come into the presence of the king]
OET-LV And_ ʼAⱱīshālōm _he/it_sat_down//remained//lived in_Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) two_years days and_the_face_of the_king not he_saw.
OET (OET-RV) Avshalom lived in Yerushalem (Jerusalem) for two years without ever getting to see the king,
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.