1.5 KiB
Turn and kill the priests ... turned and attacked the priests
Here "Turn" means to turn around or turn away from the king. See how you translated this in 1 Samuel 22:17. AT: "Go and kill the priests ... went and attacked" or "Kill the priest ... attacked the priests" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked ... he killed ... He also put to the sword ... he put to the sword
Possible meanings are 1) Doeg killed all the priests himself or 2) the word "Doeg" is a synecdoche for Doeg and the men who went with him. AT: "Doeg and his men turned and attacked ... they killed ... They put to the sword ... they put to the sword" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)
eighty-five persons
"85 men" or "85 priests" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)
put to the sword
"killed with the sword"
Nob
Nob is the name of a city. Here the name "Nob" represents the people of that city. AT: "the people in the city of Nob" or "the people of Nob" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)