# nothing to you

This phrase is an exaggeration, but it expresses the very low value that David showed for the army. AT: "are worth very little to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])

# if Absalom had lived, and we all had died, then that would have pleased you

The speaker is giving a hypothetical situation. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])