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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
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David speak of himself in the third person as a form of humility. AT: "with me, your servant ... have brought me, your servant" or "with me ... have brought me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-pronouns]])
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# you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you
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What it was that the two men agreed on can be made explicit. AT: "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/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# for why then should you bring me to your father?
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This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "then there would be no reason for you to bring me to your father" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Far be it from you!
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This is an idiom that means it will never happen to you. AT: "This will never happen to you!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# would I not tell you?
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This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "I would certainly tell you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/covenant]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin]] |