H9002–/וְ–v

But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him: how then shall we stand?

וְאֵ֖יךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who brought up [supplied: the children], sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: you do that which is good in your eyes.

וַאֲשֶׁ֪ר (וַ) va. “and”וְהַזְּקֵנִים֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהָאֹמְנִ֨ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹ֛ל (וְ) ve. “and”

Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

וּלְקֹלִ֣י׀ (וּ) u. “and”וּבֹ֧אוּ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְנֵ֤י (וּ) u. “and”

It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?

וּמִ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.

וַיהוָ֣ה (וַ) va. “and”

So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

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

Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.

וְיֵה֗וּא (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

When he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart? Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

וָיֵ֖שׁ (וָ) va. “and”

He said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. So they made him ride in his chariot.

וּרְאֵ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice [supplied: to do] to Baal; whoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

וְעַתָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיֵהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only.

וִיהוֹנָדָ֥ב (וִ) vi. “and”וּרְאוּ֙ (וּ) u. “and”

They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, [supplied: he who lets him go], his life shall be for the life of him.

וְעֹל֑וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וְיֵה֞וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

וְלַשָּׁלִשִׁ֜ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַשָּׁ֣לִשִׁ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”

However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them, [supplied: to wit], the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.

וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart: he didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

וְיֵה֗וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

וְהָרֻאובֵנִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַֽמְנַשִּׁ֑י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַגִּלְעָ֖ד (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַבָּשָֽׁן׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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

The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

וְהַיָּמִ֗ים (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁמֹנֶֽה־ (וּ) u. “and”

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

וַֽעֲתַלְיָה֙ (וַֽ) va. “and”

But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [supplied: and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;

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

He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.

וַעֲתַלְיָ֖ה (וַ) va. “and”

In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.

וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה (וּ) u. “and”וְלָ֣רָצִ֔ים (וְ) ve. “and”

He commanded them, saying, This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

וְשֹׁ֣מְרֵ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”