H9002–/וְ–v

And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And a wise woman cried out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “so”

And she spoke saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, Just inquire in Abel; and so they ended.

וְכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”

I am peaceable [supplied: and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

וְאֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The matter is not so; but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give up him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

וְיוֹאָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

וְיוֹאָ֕ב (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנָיָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

וַאֲדֹרָ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”וִיהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט (וִ) vi. “and”

and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

וּשְׁוָ֖א (וּ) u. “and”וְצָד֥וֹק (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”

and Ira also, the Jairite, was David's chief ruler.

וְגַ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for [supplied: his] house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)

וְהַגִּבְעֹנִ֞ים (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנֵ֤י (וּ) u. “and”וִיהוּדָֽה׃ (וִ) vi. “and”

And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?

וּבַמָּ֣ה (וּ) u. “and”וּבָרְכ֖וּ (וּ) u. “and”

And the Gibeonites said to him, As to Saul and his house, it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold, neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel. And he said, What ye say will I do for you.

וְזָהָב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵֽין־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel,

וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (וַ) va. “and”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

וּבֵ֖ין (וּ) u. “and”

And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of [supplied: the sister of] Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

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

and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.

וְהֵ֨מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens, and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

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

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they buried [supplied: them] with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.

וִיהוֹנָֽתָן־ (וִ) vi. “and”

And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines. And David was exhausted.

וַעֲבָדָ֥יו (וַ) va. “and”

And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah -- the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new [supplied: armour] -- thought to smite David.

וְיִשְׁבִּ֨י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁקַ֤ל (וּ) u. “and”וְה֖וּא (וְ) ve. “and”