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And he came near unto her; and the woman said: 'Art thou Joab?' And he answered: 'I am.' Then she said unto him: 'Hear the words of thy handmaid.' And he answered: 'I do hear.'

וַיִּקְרַ֣ב (וַ) va “and”וַתֹּ֧אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then she spoke, saying: 'They were wont to speak in old time, saying: They shall surely ask counsel at Abel; and so they ended the matter.

וַתֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

וַיַּ֥עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (וַ) va “and”

The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto

וַתָּבוֹא֩ (וַ) va. “and”וַֽיִּכְרְת֞וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁלִ֣כוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּתְקַע֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּפֻ֥צוּ (וַ) va “and”

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”וַיְבַקֵּ֥שׁ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them--now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children o

וַיִּקְרָ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיְבַקֵּ֤שׁ (וַ) va “and”

and David said unto the Gibeonites: 'What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.' And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?'

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֛אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.' And the king said: 'I will deliver them.'

וְהוֹקַֽעֲנוּם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

וַיַּחְמֹ֣ל (וַ) va “and”

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”

and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and they fell all seven together; and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֞ם (וַֽ) va “and”וַיֹּקִיעֻ֤ם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְּל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the f

וַתִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va. “and”וַתַּטֵּ֨הוּ (וַ) va. “and”

And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד (וַ) va “and”

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֞ח (וַ) va “and”

and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

וַיַּ֤עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֣אַסְפ֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

וַיִּקְבְּר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיֵּעָתֵ֧ר (וַ) va “and”

And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines; and David waxed faint.

וַתְּהִי־ (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּ֨רֶד (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּחֲמ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥עַף (וַ) va “and”

And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain David.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'

וַיַּֽעֲזָר־ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיְמִיתֵ֑הוּ (וַ) va “and”

And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַתְּהִי־ (וַ) va. “and”

And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

וַתְּהִי־ (וַ) va. “and”וַיַּ֡ךְ (וַ) va “and”

And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

וַתְּהִי־ (וַ) va. “and”וַיְהִ֣י׀ (וַ) va “and”