H9001–/וַ–v

Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

וַיִּ֧בֶן (וַ) va “and”

Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't answer him that day.

וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל (וַ) va “and”

Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. Jonathan and Saul were taken [supplied: by lot]; but the people escaped.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּכֵ֧ד (וַ) va “and”

Saul said, Cast [supplied: lots] between me and Jonathan my son. Jonathan was taken.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּכֵ֖ד (וַ) va “and”

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיַּגֶּד־ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va “and”

Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְדּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

וַיַּ֣עַל (וַ) va “and”

Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put [supplied: them] to the worse.

וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם (וַ) va “and”

He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֖ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּצֵּ֥ל (וַ) va “and”

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.

וַתְּהִ֤י (וַ) va. “and”וְרָאָ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַיַּאַסְפֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”

Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

וְהִכִּֽיתָ֜ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵמַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

וַיְשַׁמַּ֤ע (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְקְדֵם֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

וַיָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֖רֶב (וַ) va “and”

Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥סַר (וַ) va “and”

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”

He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ (וַ) va “and”

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

וַיַּחְמֹל֩ (וַ) va “and”

Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

וַיִּ֙חַר֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּזְעַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”