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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said ʼAⱱnēr to Yōʼāⱱ let_them_arise please the_young_men and_fight in_front_us and_he/it_said Yōʼāⱱ let_them_arise.
OET (OET-RV) Then Abner said to Yoav, “Let’s get some of these young warriors to fight it out in front of us.”
¶ “Sounds good to me,” said Yoav.
2:14 a few of our warriors: In the ancient world, enemy armies would sometimes choose individuals or small groups to fight each other as representative gladiators—a custom often referred to as champion warfare (see also 1 Sam 17).
• fight hand to hand: The Hebrew term usually includes a component of play. A contest of champions might have been seen as a type of high-stakes game. In this instance, it settled nothing; the fighting expanded into a much wider confrontation with heavier casualties (2 Sam 2:17-32).
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_said ʼAⱱnēr to Yōʼāⱱ let_them_arise please the_young_men and_fight in_front_us and_he/it_said Yōʼāⱱ let_them_arise.
OET (OET-RV) Then Abner said to Yoav, “Let’s get some of these young warriors to fight it out in front of us.”
¶ “Sounds good to me,” said Yoav.
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.