H9002–/וְ–v

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

וַאדֹנִ֤י (וַ) va. “and”וַעֲשֵׂ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלִזְעֹ֥ק (וְ) ve. “and”

The king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? I say, You and Ziba divide the land.

וְצִיבָ֔א (וְ) ve. “and”

Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְהֽוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

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

Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

וְלָ֙מָּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.

וְאָמֻ֣ת (וְ) ve. “so”וְאִמִּ֑י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִנֵּ֣ה׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲשֵׂה־ (וַ) va. “and”

The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you: and whatever you shall require of me, that will I do for you.

וַאֲנִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”וְכֹ֛ל (וְ) ve. “and”

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

וְכִמְהָ֖ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַ֕ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?

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

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?

וְלָ֤מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [supplied: right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

וְשָׁ֨ם (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁמ֛וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

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

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

וַאֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”

Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.

וְאַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.

וּרְדֹ֣ף (וּ) u. “and”

There went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

וְהַכְּרֵתִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּלֵתִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a sash with a sword fastened on his loins in the sheath of it; and as he went forth it fell out.

וַעֲמָשָׂ֖א (וַ) va. “and”וְיוֹאָ֞ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָלָ֞יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֥וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

וַעֲמָשָׂ֨א (וַ) va. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיוֹאָב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

There stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab.

וְאִישׁ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

וַעֲמָשָׂ֛א (וַ) va. “and”

He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

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