H9001–/וַ–v

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.

וַיָּ֤שָׁב (וַ) va “and”

Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

וַיְהִ֕י (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח (וַ) va “and”

And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

וַיֵּצְא֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

וַיִּוָּ֣עֲד֔וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּחֲנ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.

וַיָּבֹ֣א (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְּל֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.

וַיִּתְּנֵ֨ם (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּוּם֒ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֞וּם (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּכֻּ֕ם (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.

וַיָּ֨שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלְכֹּ֣ד (וַ) va “and”

And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.

וַ֠יַּכּוּ (וַ֠) Va “and”

And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

וַיַּכֵּ֥ם (וַ) va “and”

So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of Israel and its lowland;

וַיִּקַּ֨ח (וַ) va “and”

From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he overcame and put to death.

וַיַּכֵּ֖ם (וַ) va “and”וַיְמִיתֵֽם׃ (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

וַיָּבֹ֨א (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכְרֵ֤ת (וַ) va “and”

So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

וַיִּקַּ֨ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְּנָהּ֩ (וַ) va “and”

Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel overcame, taking as their heritage their land on the east side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

וַיִּֽרְשׁ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel overcame them; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their land for a heritage to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

וַֽ֠יִּתְּנָהּ (וַֽ֠) Va “and”

And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel overcame on the west side of Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a heritage,

וַיִּתְּנָ֨הּ (וַ) va “and”

Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was one of the last of the Rephaim); these did Moses overcome, driving them out of their country.

וַיַּכֵּ֥ם (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּרִשֵֽׁם׃ (וַ) va “and”

However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day.

וַיֵּ֨שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.

וַיִּתֵּ֣ן (וַ) va “and”

Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba;

וַיְהִ֨י (וַ) va “and”

And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by their families.

וַיִּתֵּ֤ן (וַ) va “and”