H9001–/וַ–v

The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

וַיַּ֜עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (וַ) va “and”

The men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.

וַיָּקֻ֤מוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּסֹ֧בּוּ (וַ) va “and”וַתָּמֹֽת׃ (וַ) va. “and”

I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

וָֽאֹחֵ֤ז (וָֽ) va. “and”וָֽאֲנַתְּחֶ֔הָ (וָֽ) va. “and”וָֽאֲשַׁלְּחֶ֔הָ (וָֽ) va. “and”

All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (וַ) va “and”

and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.

וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

וַיֵּֽאָסֵ֞ף (וַ) va “and”

The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

וַֽיִּשְׁלְח֞וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

וַיֵּאָסְפ֧וּ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

וַיִּתְפָּֽקְדוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [supplied: shall go up] first.

וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁאֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

וַיָּק֥וּמוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽחֲנ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

וַיֵּצֵא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעַרְכ֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

וַיֵּצְא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁחִ֨יתוּ (וַ) va “and”

The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.

וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֥ק (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּסִ֙פוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.

וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְכּ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁאֲל֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

וַיִּקְרְב֧וּ (וַ) va “and”

Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

וַיֵּצֵא֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh.

וַיַּעֲל֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְכּוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֤שְׁבוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּצ֥וּמוּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲל֛וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

וַיִּשְׁאֲל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

וַיָּ֤שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

וַיַּעֲל֧וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעַרְכ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

וַיֵּצְא֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּחֵ֡לּוּ (וַ) va “and”

The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וּֽנְתַקְּנֻ֔הוּ (וּֽ) u. “and”

All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

וַיַּעַרְכ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”