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OET (OET-LV) And_it_became the_war long between the_house of_Shāʼūl and_between the_house of_Dāvid and_Dāvid [was]_going and_stronger_and_stronger and_house of_Shāʼūl [were]_going and_weaker_and_weaker.
OET (OET-RV) Neverthless the war between Sha’ul’s and David’s followers dragged on and on, but overall, David’s side had more wins than the followers of Iysh-Boshet.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) house
(Some words not found in UHB: and=it_became the,war long between house_of Shāʼūl and=between house_of Dāvid and,David grew and,stronger_and_stronger and,house Shāʼūl grew and,weaker_and_weaker )
Here “house” is used to mean “family.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) grew stronger and stronger
(Some words not found in UHB: and=it_became the,war long between house_of Shāʼūl and=between house_of Dāvid and,David grew and,stronger_and_stronger and,house Shāʼūl grew and,weaker_and_weaker )
This metaphor means the number of people supporting David increased.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) grew weaker and weaker
(Some words not found in UHB: and=it_became the,war long between house_of Shāʼūl and=between house_of Dāvid and,David grew and,stronger_and_stronger and,house Shāʼūl grew and,weaker_and_weaker )
This metaphor means the number of people supporting Saul’s family decreased.
3:1 a long war: This civil war likely continued for most of the seven-plus years that David ruled from Hebron. The truce called by Joab and Abner (2:26-28) was short-lived.
OET (OET-LV) And_it_became the_war long between the_house of_Shāʼūl and_between the_house of_Dāvid and_Dāvid [was]_going and_stronger_and_stronger and_house of_Shāʼūl [were]_going and_weaker_and_weaker.
OET (OET-RV) Neverthless the war between Sha’ul’s and David’s followers dragged on and on, but overall, David’s side had more wins than the followers of Iysh-Boshet.
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.