OET interlinear 2 SAM 4:10

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

הַ⁠מַּגִּיד֩ לִ֨⁠י לֵ⁠אמֹ֜ר הִנֵּה־מֵ֣ת שָׁא֗וּל

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when the_[one,who]_told to=me to=say see/lo/see! dead Shāʼūl/(Saul) and=he it_became like_[one],bearing_news in,his_own_of,eyes and,I,took_hold in=him/it and,I,killed_him in,Ziklag which/who I,gave,me to=him/it news )

If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [the one who declared to me that Saul was dead]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וְ⁠הֽוּא־הָיָ֤ה כִ⁠מְבַשֵּׂר֙ בְּ⁠עֵינָ֔י⁠ו

and=he it_became (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when the_[one,who]_told to=me to=say see/lo/see! dead Shāʼūl/(Saul) and=he it_became like_[one],bearing_news in,his_own_of,eyes and,I,took_hold in=him/it and,I,killed_him in,Ziklag which/who I,gave,me to=him/it news )

See how you translated the similar expression in 3:19. Alternate translation: [and he thought that he was bringing good news]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וָ⁠אֹחֲזָ֣⁠ה ב֔⁠וֹ וָ⁠אֶהְרְגֵ֖⁠הוּ

and,I,took_hold in=him/it and,I,killed_him

See how you translated the similar expression in 1:15. Alternate translation: [that I had one of my soldiers seize him and kill him]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / irony

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְ⁠תִתִּ⁠י־ל֖⁠וֹ בְּשֹׂרָֽה

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when the_[one,who]_told to=me to=say see/lo/see! dead Shāʼūl/(Saul) and=he it_became like_[one],bearing_news in,his_own_of,eyes and,I,took_hold in=him/it and,I,killed_him in,Ziklag which/who I,gave,me to=him/it news )

In this figure of speech, David actually means to communicate the opposite of the literal meaning of his words. (By saying that he gave him a reward for good news, he means that he killed the messenger for bringing what the messenger wrongly thought was good news.) If a speaker of your language would not say the opposite of what he meant, you could translate the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [which was how I punished him for telling me that he had killed Saul as if that had been good news]