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# Did Hezekiah ... put him to death?
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The speakers are trying to get the hearers to agree with what they are saying. Alternate translation: "You know very well that Hezekiah ... did not put him to death." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# all of Judah
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The land is a metonym for the people who live there. Alternate translation: "all the people of Judah" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# Did he not fear Yahweh and appease the face of Yahweh ... them?
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The speakers are trying to get the hearers to agree with what they are saying. Alternate translation: "You know very well that he feared Yahweh and appeased the face of Yahweh so that Yahweh ... them."
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# appease the face of Yahweh
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The face is a synecdoche for the whole person. Alternate translation: "cause Yahweh to be less angry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# So will we do greater evil against our own lives?
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The speakers are trying to get the hearers to agree with what they are saying. The word "lives" is a metonym for the people. Alternate translation: "If we kill Jeremiah, we will do greater evil against our own lives." or "We do not want to do worse things to ourselves." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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