H0559–אָמַר–a.mar

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

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

The Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ (יֹּ֧אמְרוּ) i.Yo.me.ru “they said”וַיֹּ֛אמֶר (יֹּ֛אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”אֹמְרִ֖ים 'o.me.Rim “saying”

They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, [ergänzt: that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙) i.yo.me.Ru “they said”

let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (יֹּ֥אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [ergänzt: shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [ergänzt: sword], thought to have slain David.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (יֹּ֖אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.

לֵאמֹ֗ר (אמֹ֗ר) Mor “saying”

and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (יֹּאמַ֑ר) i.yo.Mar “he said”

The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,

אָמַר֙ 'a.Mar “he said”

David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (יֹּאמַ֑ר) i.yo.Mar “he said”

He said, Be it far from me, Yahweh, that I should do this: [ergänzt: shall I drink] the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

וַיֹּ֡אמֶר (יֹּ֡אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”

The king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number you the people, that I may know the sum of the people.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (אמֹֽר) Mor “saying”

Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.

אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he says”

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (יֹּ֧אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

וַ֠יֹּאמֶר (יֹּאמֶר) i.yo.mer “he said”

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house.

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (יֹּאמֶר֩) i.yo.Mer “he said”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (יֹּ֙אמֶר֙) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

all this, king, does Araunah give to the king. Araunah said to the king, Yahweh your God accept you.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

The king said to Araunah, No; but I will most assuredly buy it of you at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”