H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went through all the land.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “he was”וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it was”

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it became”

For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they have become”לִֽהְי֣וֹת (הְי֣וֹת) h.Yot “be”

So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, m

וְהָיָ֡ה (הָיָ֡ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:

וִהְיִיתֶ֥ם (הְיִיתֶ֥ם) h.yi.Tem “you will be”

And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

וְהָיָ֗ה (הָיָ֗ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.

וְהָיָ֞ה (הָיָ֞ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it was”

Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.

וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ (יִּֽהְי֤וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it was”

Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusite

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

וְהָיָ֖ה (הָיָ֖ה) ha.Yah “it has been”

Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.

יִֽהְיֶ֤ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.

וַ֠יִּֽהְיוּ (יִּֽהְיוּ) i.yih.yu “they were”

Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ (יִּֽהְי֖וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israe

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

הָיָ֜ה ha.Yah “it has been”

Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

And when they had made those kings come out to Joshua, Joshua sent for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, Come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings. So they came near and put their feet on

וַ֠יְהִי (יְהִי) y.hi “it was”