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# Amasa
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See how you translated this man's name in [2 Samuel 17:25](../17/25.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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# Are you not my flesh and my bone?
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David uses this rhetorical question to emphasize that they are related. This can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "You are my flesh and my bones." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# my flesh and my bone
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Here David speaks of them being related by saying that they have the same flesh and bones. See how you translated a similar phrase in [2 Samuel 19:12](../19/12.md). Alternate translation: "my relative" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# God do so to me
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This is an idiom that means for God to kill him. Alternate translation: "May God kill me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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