H9001–/וַ–v

And lo, the Cushite hath come, and the Cushite saith, `Let tidings be proclaimed, my lord, O king; for Jehovah hath delivered thee to-day out of the hand of all those rising up against thee.'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the king saith unto the Cushite, `Peace to the youth -- to Absalom?' And the Cushite saith, `Let them be -- as the youth -- the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against thee for evil.'

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

And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

וַיִּרְגַּ֣ז (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֛עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֑בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”

And it is declared to Joab, `Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;'

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֖ל (וַ) va “and”

and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, `The king hath been grieved for his son.'

וַתְּהִ֨י (וַ) va. “and”

And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

וַיִּתְגַּנֵּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”

and the king hath covered his face, yea, the king crieth -- a loud voice -- `My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.'

וַיִּזְעַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

And Joab cometh in unto the king to the house, and saith, `Thou hast put to shame to-day the faces of all thy servants, those delivering thy life to-day, and the life of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the life of thy wives, and the life of thy concubines,

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

`And now, rise, go out and speak unto the heart of thy servants, for by Jehovah I have sworn, that -- thou art not going out -- there doth not lodge a man with thee to-night; and this `is' worse for thee than all the evil that hath come upon thee from thy youth till now.'

וְרָעָ֧ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king riseth, and sitteth in the gate, and to all the people they have declared, saying, `Lo, the king is sitting in the gate;' and all the people come in before the king, and Israel hath fled, each to his tents.

וַיָּ֥קָם (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֤א (וַ) va “and”

And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

וַיְהִ֤י (וַ) va “and”

And he inclineth the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send unto the king, `Turn back, thou, and all thy servants.'

וַיַּ֛ט (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּשְׁלְחוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And the king turneth back, and cometh in unto the Jordan, and Judah hath come to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan,

וַיָּ֣שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֖א (וַ) va “and”

and Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite, who `is' from Bahurim, hasteth, and cometh down with the men of Judah, to meet king David,

וַיְמַהֵ֗ר (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֙רֶד֙ (וַ) va “and”

and a thousand men `are' with him from Benjamin, and Ziba servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they have gone prosperously over the Jordan before the king.

וְצָלְח֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And passed over hath the ferry-boat to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which `is' good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera hath fallen before the king in his passing over into Jordan,

וְעָבְרָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

and saith unto the king, `Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, -- for the king to set `it' unto his heart;

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death -- because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?'

וַיַּ֨עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֔אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And David saith, `What -- to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I `am' king over Israel?'

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou dost not die;' and the king sweareth to him.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשָּׁ֥בַֽע (וַ) va “and”

and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?'

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

And he saith, `My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for thy servant said, I saddle for me the ass, and ride on it, and go with the king, for thy servant `is' lame;

וַיֹּאמַ֕ר (וַ) va “and”

and he uttereth slander against thy servant unto my lord the king, and my lord the king `is' as a messenger of God; and do thou that which is good in thine eyes,

וַיְרַגֵּ֣ל (וַ) va “and”

for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and thou dost set thy servant among those eating at thy table, and what right have I any more -- even to cry any more unto the king?'

וַתָּ֙שֶׁת֙ (וַ) va. “and”

And the king saith to him, `Why dost thou speak any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba -- share ye the field.'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”