H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “he was”

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

וַֽיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

And on hearing it, King Hezekiah took off his robe, and put on haircloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

וּתְהִ֗י (תְהִ֗י) te.Hi “you are”

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

הָי֞וּ ha.Yu “they were”

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

וַיְהִי֮ (יְהִי֮) y.Hi “it was”

And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword; and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son became king in his place.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or hi

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it was”

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

וְהָיוּ֙ (הָיוּ֙) ha.Yu “they will be”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;

וְהָי֥וּ (הָי֥וּ) ha.Yu “they will become”

Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

וַיִּהְי֥וּ (יִּהְי֥וּ) i.yih.Yu “they have been”

Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to y

לִהְי֤וֹת (הְי֤וֹת) h.Yot “become”

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he had been”

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he was”

Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

הָֽיְתָה֙ ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

הָיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah “it had belonged”

And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

הָיְתָ֤ה ha.ye.Tah “it happened”

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “it belonged”