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OET (OET-LV) and_he/it_was a_famine in/on/at/with_days of_Dāvid three years year after year and_he/it_sought Dāvid DOM the_face of_YHWH and_he/it_said YHWH because_of Shāʼūl and_near/to the_house the_bloodguilt on that he_put_to_death DOM the_Giⱱˊōnites.
OET (OET-RV) During David’s reign, there was a three-year famine. David inquired from Yahweh who said, “Sha’ul and his family have blood on their hands, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) sought the face of Yahweh
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was famine in/on/at/with,days Dāvid three years year after year and=he/it_sought Dāvid DOM face/surface_of YHWH and=he/it_said YHWH to/towards Shāʼūl and=near/to house_of the,bloodguilt on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in which/who put_~_todeath DOM the,Gibeonites )
Here “face” is a synecdoche for Yahweh’s presence. This means David prayed to Yahweh for an answer about the famine.
(Occurrence 0) because of Saul and his murderous family
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was famine in/on/at/with,days Dāvid three years year after year and=he/it_sought Dāvid DOM face/surface_of YHWH and=he/it_said YHWH to/towards Shāʼūl and=near/to house_of the,bloodguilt on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in which/who put_~_todeath DOM the,Gibeonites )
Saul had killed many Gibeonites, and Saul’s descendants are guilty because of this sin.
21:1–24:25 The final chapters of 2 Samuel are a coda, a concluding section that summarizes the important themes from the preceding material. These chapters are thematic, not chronological, and not all the events described here happened at the end of David’s reign (e.g., 22:1). The materials are arranged according to a common Hebrew literary device, a chiasm (mirror-image): A: Saul’s sin against the Gibeonites and its collective punishment (21:1-14); B: David’s heroes and their exploits (21:15-22); C: David’s Psalm (22:1-51); C′: David’s Psalm (23:1-7); B′: David’s heroes and their exploits (23:8-39); A′: David’s sin against the census taboo and its collective punishment (24:1-25). A chiasm highlights the central section—here David’s hymns, which focus not on David but on David’s God.
21:1 asked the Lord: The Hebrew verb is the same as that used when David “begged” for the life of Bathsheba’s child (12:16). On these two occasions, “seeking” was in the desperation of a moment of crisis. However, most often in the Old Testament, “seeking God” refers not to a specific prayer of petition but to the dynamics of daily devotion and obedience to God (e.g., Pss 40:16; 105:4; Prov 28:5).
• Saul and his family are guilty: The famine resulted from violating an oath taken before the Lord (Josh 9:19-20).
• murdering the Gibeonites: This incident is not elsewhere recorded. Illicit bloodshed had polluted the land, making it sterile and unfruitful (cp. Gen 4:10-12; Num 35:30-34).
OET (OET-LV) and_he/it_was a_famine in/on/at/with_days of_Dāvid three years year after year and_he/it_sought Dāvid DOM the_face of_YHWH and_he/it_said YHWH because_of Shāʼūl and_near/to the_house the_bloodguilt on that he_put_to_death DOM the_Giⱱˊōnites.
OET (OET-RV) During David’s reign, there was a three-year famine. David inquired from Yahweh who said, “Sha’ul and his family have blood on their hands, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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.