29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 3 to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become 4 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 5
1 tn Heb “know and see.” The expression is a hendiadys. See also v. 23.
2 tn Heb “his place where his foot is.”
3 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
4 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
5 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.