H9002–/וְ–v

So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

וְאֵ֤לֶּה (וְ) ve. “and”

The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַצִּ֣ידֹנִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַ֣חִוִּ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

וּבְנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּרִזִּ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַחִוִּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

וַעֲמָלֵ֑ק (וַ) va. “and”

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.

וְלָ֛הּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.

וְעֶגְל֕וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”

But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

וְה֣וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.

וְאֵה֣וּד׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֽוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

וְה֤וּא (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲבָדָ֣יו (וַ) va. “and”וְהִנֵּ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

וְהִנֵּ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִנֵּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.

וְאֵה֥וּד (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.

וְה֥וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

וְאַחֲרָ֤יו (וְ) ve. “and”

And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.

וְאֵה֖וּד (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

וְשַׂר־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֥וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

וְ֠הוּא (וְ֠) Ve. “and”

Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

וּדְבוֹרָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”

(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

וְ֠הִיא (וְ֠) Ve. “and”וּבֵ֥ין (וּ) u. “and”

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali an

וּמִבְּנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”