29:4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said 1 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 2 our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men? 3
1 tn Heb “and the leaders of the Philistines said.”
2 tn Heb “so that he might not become.”
3 tn Or perhaps, “our men.” On this use of the demonstrative pronoun see Joüon 2:532 §143.e.