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Amasa
See how you translated this man's name in 2 Samuel 17:25. (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. 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)