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# your rule will not continue
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This is a litotes that can be stated in the positive form. Alternate translation: "your rule will end soon" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-litotes]])
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# a man after his own heart
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Here "heart" represents Yahweh's desire or will. The phrase "man after his own heart" is an idiom that means to be a person who does what Yahweh desires. Alternate translation: "a man who is the kind of person he wants" or "a man who will obey him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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