H9001–/וַ–v

Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖דְנָה (וַֽ) va. “and”

And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

וַתֹּ֜אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”וָאֵלֵ֥ד (וָ) va. “and”

And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.

וַיְהִ֞י (וַ) va “and”וַתֵּ֖לֶד (וַ) va. “and”

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

וַיָּ֛מָת (וַ) va “and”

And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

וַתָּקָם֩ (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּקַּ֧ח (וַ) va. “and”וַתַּשְׁכִּיבֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va. “and”

And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

וָאָקֻ֥ם (וָ) va. “and”וָאֶתְבּוֹנֵ֤ן (וָ) va. “and”

And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

וַתֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va. “and”וַתְּדַבֵּ֖רְנָה (וַ) va. “and”

Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.

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

And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”וַתֹּ֣אמֶר׀ (וַ) va. “and”

Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

וַיַּ֨עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

וַיִּשְׁמְע֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּֽרְא֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.

וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

וַיֵּשֶׁב֩ (וַ) va “and”

And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.

וְכִלְכְּלוּ֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

וַיִּתֵּן֩ (וַ) va “and”

And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

וַתֵּ֙רֶב֙ (וַ) va. “and”

For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.

וַיֶּחְכַּם֮ (וַ) va “and”וַיְהִֽי־ (וַ) va “and”

He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

וַיְדַבֵּ֕ר (וַ) va “and”וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

וַיְדַבֵּר֮ (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבֵּר֙ (וַ) va “and”

People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”