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-# Connecting Statement:
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-David continues speaking to Jonathan.
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 # with your servant ... have brought your servant
 
-David speak of himself in the third person as a form of humility. Alternate translation: "with me, your servant ... have brought me, your servant" or "with me ... have brought me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-pronouns]])
+"with me, your servant ... have brought me, your servant" or "with me ... have brought me" 
 
 # you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you
 
-What it was that the two men agreed on can be made explicit. Alternate translation: "Yahweh heard you when you made a solemn agreement with me that you and I will always be good friends" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+"Yahweh heard you when you made a solemn agreement with me that you and I will always be good friends" 
 
 # for why then should you bring me to your father?
 
-This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "then there would be no reason for you to bring me to your father" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
+"then there would be no reason for you to bring me to your father"