# Amasa

See how you translated this man's name in [2 Samuel 17:25](../17/24.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# Are you not my flesh and my bone?

David uses this rhetorical question to emphasize that they are related. This can be written as a statement. AT: "You are my flesh and my bones." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# my flesh and my bone

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](./11.md). AT: "my relative" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# God do so to me

This is an idiom that means for God to kill him. AT: "May God kill me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# he won the hearts

Here the mens' loyalty is referred to as their "hearts." AT: "he won the loyalty" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# as one man

This speaks of the men being united in their loyalty to the king as if they were one man with the same mind. AT: "and they were united together" or "they were united in their loyalty to the king" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# They sent to the king

This means that they sent a messenger to the king. AT: "They sent a messenger to the king" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/heart]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/gilgal]]