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 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
2 Sam 4 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Baanah (SA2 4:2) · Rechab (SA2 4:2)
OET-LV And_they(f) they_came to the_middle_of the_house taking_of (of)_wheat(s) and_they_struck_him into the_belly and_Rēkāⱱ and_Baˊₐnāh his/its_brother they_escaped.
OET (OET-RV) Combined passage: English SA2 4:6–7 (native SA2 4:6–7; verse text cannot be split). 6-7 They entered the middle of the house as if getting wheat, then entered the inner room where @Ish-Boshet was on the bed. They struck him in the body, killing him, then they cut off his head. Then Rekav and Ba’anah took the head and escaped, and walked all night through the Aravah.
Note 1 topic: translate-versebridge
וְ֠הֵנָּה בָּ֜אוּ עַד־תּ֤וֹךְ הַבַּ֨יִת֙ לֹקְחֵ֣י חִטִּ֔ים וַיַּכֻּ֖הוּ אֶל־הַחֹ֑מֶשׁ וְרֵכָ֛ב וּבַעֲנָ֥ה אָחִ֖יו נִמְלָֽטוּ
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_[fem] they_went until middle_of of,the_house get_of wheat and,they,struck_him to/towards the,belly and,Rechab and,Baanah his/its=brother escaped )
Following the conventions of Hebrew storytelling, the author gives a general summary of these events in this verse and then describes them in more specific detail in the next verse. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could create a verse bridge for verses 6–7 and relate these events only once. The UST models one way to do that.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וְ֠הֵנָּה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_[fem] they_went until middle_of of,the_house get_of wheat and,they,struck_him to/towards the,belly and,Rechab and,Baanah his/its=brother escaped )
See how you translated the similar expression in 1:12. Alternate translation: [Then suddenly]
OET-LV And_they(f) they_came to the_middle_of the_house taking_of (of)_wheat(s) and_they_struck_him into the_belly and_Rēkāⱱ and_Baˊₐnāh his/its_brother they_escaped.
OET (OET-RV) Combined passage: English SA2 4:6–7 (native SA2 4:6–7; verse text cannot be split). 6-7 They entered the middle of the house as if getting wheat, then entered the inner room where @Ish-Boshet was on the bed. They struck him in the body, killing him, then they cut off his head. Then Rekav and Ba’anah took the head and escaped, and walked all night through the Aravah.
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.
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