en_tn/2sa/14/12.md

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  • Please let your servant speak a further word to my master the king - The woman is requesting permission to speak to King David on a new topic. AT: "Please may I say something to you."
  • Speak on - "You may speak to me"
  • Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? - This question is asked to rebuke David. AT: "What you have just said proved that you did wrong." (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
  • are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again - "after we die we can not be brought back again" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile)
  • God ... finds a way to bring back one he has driven away from himself - "God brings back someone whom he has chased away from himself and you should bring back your son who has run away from you." (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_explicit)