H9001–/וַ–v

And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.

וַיִּ֧בֶן (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith, `Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and we prey upon them till the light of the morning, and leave not a man of them.' And they say, `All that is good in thine eyes do.' And the priest saith, `Let us draw near hither unto God.'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

And Saul asketh of God, `Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day.

וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith, `Draw ye nigh hither all, the chiefs of the people, and know and see in what this sin hath been to-day;

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And he saith unto all Israel, `Ye -- ye are on one side, and I and Jonathan my son are on another side;' and the people say unto Saul, `That which is good in thine eyes do.'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith unto Jehovah, God of Israel, `Give perfection;' and Jonathan and Saul are captured, and the people went out.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּכֵ֧ד (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith, `Cast between me and Jonathan my son;' and Jonathan is captured.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּכֵ֖ד (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith unto Jonathan, `Declare to me, what hast thou done?' and Jonathan declareth to him, and saith, `I certainly tasted with the end of the rod that `is' in my hand a little honey; lo, I die!'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיַּגֶּד־ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va “and”

And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the people say unto Saul, `Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? -- a profanation! Jehovah liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְדּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Saul goeth up from after the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone to their place;

וַיַּ֣עַל (וַ) va “and”

and Saul captured the kingdom over Israel, and he fighteth round about against all his enemies, against Moab, and against the Bene-Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and whithersoever he turneth he doth vex `them'.

וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם (וַ) va “and”

And he maketh a force, and smiteth Amalek, and delivereth Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֖ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּצֵּ֥ל (וַ) va “and”

And the sons of Saul are Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-Shua; as to the name of his two daughters, the name of the first-born `is' Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And the war is severe against the Philistines all the days of Saul; when Saul hath seen any mighty man, and any son of valour, then he doth gather him unto himself.

וַתְּהִ֤י (וַ) va. “and”וְרָאָ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַיַּאַסְפֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”

And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Me did Jehovah send to anoint thee for king over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words of Jehovah:

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'

וְהִכִּֽיתָ֜ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַֽחֲרַמְתֶּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵמַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Saul summoneth the people, and inspecteth them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand `are' men of Judah.

וַיְשַׁמַּ֤ע (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְקְדֵם֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And Saul cometh in unto a city of Amalek, and layeth wait in a valley;

וַיָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֖רֶב (וַ) va “and”

and Saul saith unto the Kenite, `Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume thee with it, and thou didst kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turneth aside from the midst of Amalek.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥סַר (וַ) va “and”

And Saul smiteth Amalek from Havilah -- thy going in to Shur, which `is' on the front of Egypt,

וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”

and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;

וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ (וַ) va “and”

and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that `is' good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.

וַיַּחְמֹל֩ (וַ) va “and”

And the word of Jehovah is unto Samuel, saying,

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

`I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he hath turned back from after Me, and My words he hath not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he crieth unto Jehovah all the night.

וַיִּ֙חַר֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּזְעַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”