H9001–/וַ–v

Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord.

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

Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

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

The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּסֹּ֞ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְגַּע־ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֣מֶת׀ (וַ) va “and”

One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

וַיִּמָּלֵ֣ט (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְרַ֖ח (וַ) va “and”

Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.

וַיַּגֵּ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned [supplied: the death] of all the persons of your father's house.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.

וַיַּגִּ֥דוּ (וַ) va “and”

Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.

וַיִּשְׁאַ֨ל (וַ) va “and”וְהִכֵּ֔יתִי (וְ) ve. “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהִכִּ֣יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוֹשַׁעְתָּ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”

David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.

וַיּ֨וֹסֶף (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲנֵ֖הוּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּנְהַג֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣שַׁע (וַ) va “and”

It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”

It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

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

Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

וַיְשַׁמַּ֥ע (וַ) va “and”

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

וַיֵּ֣דַע (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

וַיֹּאמֶר֮ (וַ) va “and”

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.

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

Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.

וַיָּקָם֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצְאוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּֽתְהַלְּכ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּחְדַּ֖ל (וַ) va “and”

David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.

וַיֵּ֨שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיְבַקְשֵׁ֤הוּ (וַ) va “and”

David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

וַיַּ֣רְא (וַ) va “and”

Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיְחַזֵּ֥ק (וַ) va “and”