H9001–/וַ–v

And he cometh near unto her, and the woman saith, `Art thou Joab?' and he saith, `I `am'.' And she saith to him, `Hear the words of thy handmaid;' and he saith, `I am hearing.'

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

and she speaketh, saying, `They spake often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.

וַתֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

And Joab answereth and saith, `Far be it -- far be it from me; I do not swallow up nor destroy.

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

The matter `is' not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, `Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast `it' unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

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

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

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

And the king calleth for the Gibeonites, and saith unto them -- as to the Gibeonites, they `are' not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeketh to smite them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah --

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

yea, David saith unto the Gibeonites, `What do I do for you? and with what do I make atonement? and bless ye the inheritance of Jehovah.'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the Gibeonites say to him, `We have no silver and gold by Saul and by his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel;' and he saith, `What ye are saying I do to you.'

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

And they say unto the king, `The man who consumed us, and who devised against us -- we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel --

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

let there be given to us seven men of his sons, and we have hanged them before Jehovah, in the height of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah.' And the king saith, `I do give;'

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

and the king hath pity on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of Jehovah that `is' between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul;

וַיַּחְמֹ֣ל (וַ) va “and”

and the king taketh the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul whom she bare to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”

and giveth them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hang them in the hill before Jehovah; and the seven fall together, and they have been put to death in the days of harvest, in the first `days', the commencement of barley-harvest.

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

And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

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

And it is declared to David that which Rizpah daughter of Aiah, concubine of Saul, hath done,

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד (וַ) va “and”

and David goeth and taketh the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines smiting Saul in Gilboa;

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

and he bringeth up thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gather the bones of those hanged,

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

and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.

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

And again have the Philistines war with Israel, and David goeth down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary,

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

and Ishbi-Benob, who `is' among the children of the giant -- the weight of his spear `is' three hundred `shekels' weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one -- speaketh of smiting David,

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

and Abishai son of Zeruiah giveth help to him, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, `Thou dost not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.'

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

And it cometh to pass afterwards, that the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, then hath Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Saph, who `is' among the children of the giant.

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

And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smiteth `a brother of' Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear `is' like a beam of weavers.

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

And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands `are' six, and the toes of his feet `are' six, twenty and four in number, and he also hath been born to the giant,

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