H9002–/וְ–v

So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out at once, and he did not give them into the power of Joshua.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;

וְאֵ֤לֶּה (וְ) ve. “and”

These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sido'nians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Ba'al-her'mon as far as the entrance of Hamath.

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

So the people of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites;

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

and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, forgetting the LORD their God, and serving the Ba'als and the Ashe'roth.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amal'ekites, and went and defeated Israel; and they took possession of the city of palms.

וַעֲמָלֵ֑ק (וַ) va. “and”

And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it on his right thigh under his clothes.

וְלָ֛הּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

וְעֶגְל֕וֹן (וְ) ve. “and”

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

וְה֣וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

And Ehud came to him, as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.

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

When he had gone, the servants came; and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "He is only relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."

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

And they waited till they were utterly at a loss; but when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them; and there lay their lord dead on the floor.

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

Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Se-i'rah.

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

When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of E'phraim; and the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, having him at their head.

וְה֥וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

And he said to them, "Follow after me; for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him, and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed not a man to pass over.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.

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

After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed six hundred of the Philistines with an oxgoad; and he too delivered Israel.

וְאַחֲרָ֤יו (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, after Ehud died.

וְאֵה֖וּד (וְ) ve. “and”

And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sis'era, who dwelt in Haro'sheth-ha-goiim.

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

Then the people of Israel cried to the LORD for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

וְ֠הוּא (וְ֠) Ve. “and”

Now Deb'orah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapp'idoth, was judging Israel at that time.

וּדְבוֹרָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”

She used to sit under the palm of Deb'orah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of E'phraim; and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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

She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abin'o-am from Kedesh in Naph'tali, and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking ten thousand from the tribe of Naph'tali and the tribe of Zeb'ulun.

וּמִבְּנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

And I will draw out Sis'era, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will give him into your hand.'"

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