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 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C21 C22 C23 C24
2 Sam 20 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joab (SA1 26:6)
OET-LV And_they_came and_they_laid_siege on/upon/above_him/it in_of house_of maˊₐkāh and_they_poured_out a_mound against the_city and_it_stood by_rampart and_all the_people which was_with Yōʼāⱱ were_about_to_destroy to_make_fall the_wall.
OET (OET-RV) Yoav’s men arrived and Avel-Beyt-Ma’akah. They heaped a siege ramp up against the city, and also pounded the wall to try to make it collapse.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pronouns
וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_came and,they_laid_siege on/upon/above=him/it in,,of house_of maˊₐkāh and,they_poured_out siege_ramp to/towards the=city and,it_stood by,rampart and=all the,people which/who DOM Yōʼāⱱ/(Joab) battering to,make_fall the,wall )
The pronoun they refers to Joab and his soldiers. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: [And Joab and his soldiers came]
Note 2 topic: translate-unknown
בַּחֵ֑ל
(Some words not found in UHB: and=they_came and,they_laid_siege on/upon/above=him/it in,,of house_of maˊₐkāh and,they_poured_out siege_ramp to/towards the=city and,it_stood by,rampart and=all the,people which/who DOM Yōʼāⱱ/(Joab) battering to,make_fall the,wall )
A rampart is a kind of defensive wall or fortification around a city, specifically in this context an outer wall of a city that also has an inner wall. If your readers would not be familiar with what a rampart is, you could use the name of a similar thing that your readers would recognize, or you could use a more general term. Alternate translation: [against the outer wall]
OET-LV And_they_came and_they_laid_siege on/upon/above_him/it in_of house_of maˊₐkāh and_they_poured_out a_mound against the_city and_it_stood by_rampart and_all the_people which was_with Yōʼāⱱ were_about_to_destroy to_make_fall the_wall.
OET (OET-RV) Yoav’s men arrived and Avel-Beyt-Ma’akah. They heaped a siege ramp up against the city, and also pounded the wall to try to make it collapse.
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.