H9002–/וְ–v

and they go in and lay siege against him, in Abel of Beth-Maachah, and cast up a mount against the city, and it standeth in a trench, and all the people who are `are' with Joab are destroying, to cause the wall to fall.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And a wise woman calleth out of the city, `Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, and I speak unto thee.'

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “so”

and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.

וְכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”

I `am' of the peaceable -- faithful ones of Israel; thou art seeking to destroy a city, and a mother in Israel; why dost thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

וְאֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it -- far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The matter `is' not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast `it' unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

וְיוֹאָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab `is' over all the host of Israel, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada `is' over the Cherethite, and over the Pelethite,

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

and Adoram `is' over the tribute, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud `is' the remembrancer,

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

and Sheva `is' scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar `are' priests,

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

and also, Ira the Jairite hath been minister to David.

וְגַ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king calleth for the Gibeonites, and saith unto them -- as to the Gibeonites, they `are' not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeketh to smite them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah --

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

yea, David saith unto the Gibeonites, `What do I do for you? and with what do I make atonement? and bless ye the inheritance of Jehovah.'

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

And the Gibeonites say to him, `We have no silver and gold by Saul and by his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel;' and he saith, `What ye are saying I do to you.'

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

And they say unto the king, `The man who consumed us, and who devised against us -- we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel --

וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (וַ) va. “and”

and the king hath pity on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of Jehovah that `is' between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul;

וּבֵ֖ין (וּ) u. “and”

and the king taketh the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul whom she bare to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

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

and giveth them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hang them in the hill before Jehovah; and the seven fall together, and they have been put to death in the days of harvest, in the first `days', the commencement of barley-harvest.

וְהֵ֨מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

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

and David goeth and taketh the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines smiting Saul in Gilboa;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and he bringeth up thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gather the bones of those hanged,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.

וִיהוֹנָֽתָן־ (וִ) vi. “and”

And again have the Philistines war with Israel, and David goeth down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary,

וַעֲבָדָ֥יו (וַ) va. “and”

and Ishbi-Benob, who `is' among the children of the giant -- the weight of his spear `is' three hundred `shekels' weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one -- speaketh of smiting David,

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