H9001–/וַ–v

In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.

וַיְהִי־ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֖שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְרָד־ (וַ) va “and”

And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.

וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֥ם (וַ) va “and”

And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

וַיְמַלֵּ֥א (וַ) va “and”

So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ (וַ) va “and”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;

וַיָּבֹ֛א (וַ) va “and”

Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

וַיֵּצֵ֞א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

וַיּוֹצֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”וַיְקַצֵּ֞ץ (וַ) va “and”

And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

וְהִגְלָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

וַיֶּ֥גֶל (וַ) va “and”

And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.

וַיְבִיאֵ֧ם (וַ) va “and”

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.

וַיַּמְלֵ֧ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּסֵּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֣חַן (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְנ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of t

וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.

וַיִּרְדְּפ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשִּׂ֥גוּ (וַ) va “and”

And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.

וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.

וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְבִאֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.

וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”