Carmel: regarding the town of Carmel, see the comments on verse 2.

They said to her: literally “And they said to her, saying.”

If the direct discourse of this verse is not natural in the receptor language, translators may say “They told her that David had sent them to take her back to become his wife.”

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Ellington, John E. A Handbook on the First and Second Books of Samuel, Volume 1. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2001. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .