H9001–/וַ–v

Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him.

וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖דְנָה (וַֽ) va. “and”

The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

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

It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

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

This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

וַיָּ֛מָת (וַ) va “and”

She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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

When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.

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

The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.

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

Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king.

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

The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.

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

Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.

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

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

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

King Solomon was king over all Israel.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

וְכִלְכְּל֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

וַיְהִ֥י (וַ) va “and”

Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

וַיֵּשֶׁב֩ (וַ) va “and”

Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

וְכִלְכְּלוּ֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.

וַיִּתֵּן֩ (וַ) va “and”

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

וַתֵּ֙רֶב֙ (וַ) va. “and”

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

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

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

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

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

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

There came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”