H9001–/וַ–v

He came near to her; and the woman said, Are you Joab? He answered, I am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. 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 [ergänzt: counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [ergänzt: the matter].

וַתֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

Joab answered, 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, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

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

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

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh 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”

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to 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 to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

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

and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

The Gibeonites said to 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. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

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

They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, [ergänzt: that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. The king said, I will give them.

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

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh'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 to 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”

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [ergänzt: all] seven together. 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”

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

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

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

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד (וַ) va “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 street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

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

and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

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

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

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

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew 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 [ergänzt: shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [ergänzt: sword], thought to have slain David.

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.

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

It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

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

There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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

There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, who 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”