H9002–/וְ–v

And all the sons of Israel go out, and the company is assembled as one man, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah, at Mizpeh.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶ֖רֶץ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the man, the Levite, husband of the woman who hath been murdered, answereth and saith, `Into Gibeah (which `is' to Benjamin) I have come, I and my concubine, to lodge;

וּפִֽילַגְשִׁ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

and rise against me do the masters of Gibeah -- and they go round the house against me by night -- me they thought to slay, and my concubine they have humbled, and she dieth;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and I lay hold on my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and send her into all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have done wickedness and folly in Israel;

וּנְבָלָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

lo, ye `are' all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'

וְעֵצָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the people rise as one man, saying, `None of us doth go to his tent, and none of us doth turn aside to his house;

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

and now, this `is' the thing which we do to Gibeah -- against it by lot!

וְעַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”

and we have taken ten men of a hundred, of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of a myriad, to receive provision for the people, to do, at their coming to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly which it hath done in Israel.'

וּמֵאָ֤ה (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶ֣לֶף (וְ) ve. “and”

And now, give up the men -- sons of worthlessness -- which `are' in Gibeah, and we put them to death, and we put away evil from Israel.' And `the sons of' Benjamin have not been willing to hearken to the voice of their brethren, the sons of Israel;

וְעַתָּ֡ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּנְמִיתֵ֔ם (וּ) u. “so”וּנְבַעֲרָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

And the sons of Benjamin number themselves on that day; out of the cities `are' twenty and six thousand men drawing sword, apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah, `who' numbered themselves, seven hundred chosen men;

וְשִׁשָּׁ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

among all this people `are' seven hundred chosen men, bound of their right hand, each of these slinging with a stone at the hair, and he doth not err.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And the men of Israel numbered themselves, apart from Benjamin, four hundred thousand men, drawing sword, each of these a man of war.

וְאִ֨ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men -- to the earth.

וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the sons of Israel go up, even all the people, and come in to Beth-El, and weep, and sit there before Jehovah, and fast on that day till the evening, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁלָמִ֖ים (וּ) u. “and”

And the sons of Israel ask of Jehovah, -- and there `is' the ark of the covenant of God in those days,

וְשָׁ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, is standing before it in those days -- saying, `Do I add again to go out to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother, or do I cease?' And Jehovah saith, `Go up, for to-morrow I give him into thy hand.'

וּ֠פִינְחָס (וּ֠) U. “and”

And the sons of Benjamin come out to meet the people; they have been drawn away out of the city, and begin to smite `some' of the people -- wounded as time by time, in the highways (of which one is going up to Beth-El, and the other to Gibeah in the field), `are' about thirty men of Israel.

וְאַחַ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”

And the sons of Benjamin say, `They are smitten before us as at the beginning;' but the sons of Israel said, `Let us flee, and draw them away out of the city, unto the highways.'

וּבְנֵ֧י (וּ) u. “and”

And all the men of Israel have risen from their place, and arrange themselves at Baal-Tamar, and the ambush of Israel is coming forth out of its place, out of the meadow of Gibeah.

וְכֹ֣ל׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֹרֵ֧ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And they come in over against Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel -- and the battle `is' grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.

וְהַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Jehovah smiteth Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel destroy in Benjamin, on that day, twenty and five thousand, and a hundred men; all these `are' drawing sword.

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”וּמֵאָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

and the ambush have hasted, and push against Gibeah, and the ambush draweth itself out, and smiteth the whole of the city by the mouth of the sword.

וְהָאֹרֵ֣ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And there was the appointed sign to the men of Israel with the ambush -- their causing to go up a great volume of smoke from the city.

וְהַמּוֹעֵ֗ד (וְ) ve. “and”

And the men of Israel turn in battle, and Benjamin hath begun to smite the wounded among the men of Israel, about thirty men, for they said, `Surely they are utterly smitten before us, as `at' the first battle;

וּבִנְיָמִ֡ן (וּ) u. “and”

and the volume hath begun to go up from the city -- a pillar of smoke -- and Benjamin turneth behind, and lo, gone up hath the perfection of the city toward the heavens.

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