H9001–/וַ–v

And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe: but they knew not that evil was near them.

וַיָּבֹאוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”

And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjaminites, because they trusted to the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

וַיִּרְא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְּנ֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּמְשֹׁךְ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”

And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

וַיַּהֲפֹ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”

But when the flame began to rise from the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the flame of the city ascended to heaven.

וַיִּ֤פֶן (וַ) va “and”

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil had come upon them.

וַיִּבָּהֵ֖ל (וַ) va “and”

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

וַיִּפְנ֞וּ (וַ) va “and”

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

וַֽיִּפְּלוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

וַיִּפְנ֞וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּנֻ֤סוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְעֹֽלְלֻ֙הוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּדְבִּ֤יקוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

וַיִּפְנ֞וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּנֻ֤סוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

וַיַּכּ֣וּם (וַ) va “and”

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept bitterly;

וַיָּבֹ֤א (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֤שְׁבוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׂא֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְכּ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְנוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And the children of Israel repented for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

וַיִּנָּֽחֲמוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? and behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

For the people were numbered, and behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

וַיִּתְפָּקֵ֖ד (וַ) va “and”

And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

וַיִּשְׁלְחוּ־ (וַ) va “and”וַיְצַוּ֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וְהִכִּיתֶ֞ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

וַֽיִּמְצְא֞וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיָּבִ֨יאוּ (וַ) va “and”

And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַֽיְדַבְּרוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּקְרְא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

וַיָּ֤שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

וַיֹּֽאמְר֨וּ (וַ) va “and”