H9001–/וַ–v

When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

וַ֠תֹּאמֶר (וַ֠) Va. “and”וַתִּפֹּ֧ל (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּשְׁתָּ֑חוּ (וַ) va. “and”וַתֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ (וַ) va “and”וַתֹּ֗אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”וַיָּ֥מָת (וַ) va “and”

Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

וַיִּנָּצ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּ֧וֹ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥מֶת (וַ) va “and”

Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וְכִבּ֗וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.

וַתֹּ֜אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

The king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you any more.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַֽהֲבֵאת֣וֹ (וַֽ) va. “and”

Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

וַתֹּאמֶר֩ (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Then the woman said, Please let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king. He said, Say on.

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va. “and”

For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

וְחָשַׁב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.

וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va. “and”

Then the king answered the woman, Please don't hide anything from me that I shall ask you. The woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

וַיַּ֣עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va. “and”

The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַתַּ֣עַן (וַ) va. “and”וַתֹּ֡אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.

וַיִּפֹּל֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

וַיָּ֥קָם (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּסֹּ֤ב (וַ) va “and”

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

וְֽ֠הָיָה (וְֽ֠) Ve. “and”וְגִלְּח֑וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁקַל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

וַיִּֽוָּלְד֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see the king's face.

וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח (וַ) va “and”

Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

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

Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have your servants set my field on fire?

וַיָּ֣קָם (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”