978 B
978 B
He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'
These direct quotations could be stated as indirect speech. AT: "He asked me who I was, and I told him that I am an Amalekite" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations)
I am an Amalekite
These are the same people David just finishing attacking in 2 Samuel 1:01.
great suffering has taken hold of me
Saul's suffering is spoken of as something terrible that has grabbed hold of him. AT: "I am suffering terribly" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
life is still in me
This idiom means he is still alive. AT: "I am still alive" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)
he would not live after he had fallen
"he would die anyway"