H9001–/וַ–v

And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, `Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these -- the flock -- what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'

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

And Gad cometh in unto David on that day, and saith to him, `Go up, raise to Jehovah an altar in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite;'

וַיָּבֹא־ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

and David goeth up, according to the word of Gad, as Jehovah commanded.

וַיַּ֤עַל (וַ) va “and”

And Araunah looketh, and seeth the king and his servants passing over unto him, and Araunah goeth out and boweth himself to the king -- his face to the earth.

וַיַּשְׁקֵ֣ף (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֤רְא (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּ֧חוּ (וַ) va “and”

And Araunah saith, `Wherefore hath my lord the king come unto his servant?' and David saith, `To buy from thee the threshing-floor, to build an altar to Jehovah, and the plague is restrained from the people.'

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

And Araunah saith unto David, `Let my lord the king take and cause to ascend that which is good in his eyes; see, the oxen for a burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments, and the instruments of the oxen, for wood;'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

the whole hath Araunah given, `as' a king to a king; and Araunah saith unto the king, `Jehovah thy God doth accept thee.'

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the king saith unto Araunah, `Nay, for I do surely buy from thee for a price, and I do not cause to ascend to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings for nought;' and David buyeth the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver,

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

and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and causeth to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and Jehovah is entreated for the land, and the plague is restrained from Israel.

וַיִּבֶן֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֥עַל (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּעָתֵ֤ר (וַ) va “and”וַתֵּעָצַ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

And king David `is' old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,

וַיְכַסֻּ֙הוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

and his servants say to him, `Let them seek for my lord the king a young woman, a virgin, and she hath stood before the king, and is to him a companion, and hath lain in thy bosom, and my lord the king hath heat.'

וַיֹּ֧אמְרוּ (וַ) va “and”וְעָֽמְדָה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁכְבָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְחַ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And they seek a fair young woman in all the border of Israel, and find Abishag the Shunammite, and bring her in to the king,

וַיְבַקְשׁוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיָּבִ֥אוּ (וַ) va “and”

and the young woman `is' very very fair, and she is to the king a companion, and serveth him, and the king hath not known her.

וַתְּהִ֨י (וַ) va. “and”וַתְּשָׁ֣רְתֵ֔הוּ (וַ) va. “and”

And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, `I do reign;' and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

And his words are with Joab son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest, and they help after Adonijah;

וַיִּהְי֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעְזְר֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

And Adonijah sacrificeth sheep and oxen and fatlings near the stone of Zoheleth, that `is' by En-Rogel, and calleth all his brethren, sons of the king, and for all the men of Judah, servants of the king;

וַיִּזְבַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֗א (וַ) va “and”

And Nathan speaketh unto Bath-Sheba, mother of Solomon, saying, `Hast thou not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith hath reigned, and our lord David hath not known?

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

go and enter in unto king David, and thou hast said unto him, Hast thou not, my lord, O king, sworn to thy handmaid, saying, Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne? and wherefore hath Adonijah reigned?

וְאָמַ֤רְתְּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Lo, thou are yet speaking there with the king, and I come in after thee, and have completed thy words.'

וּמִלֵּאתִ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto the king, to the inner chamber, and the king `is' very aged, and Abishag the Shunammite is serving the king:

וַתָּבֹ֨א (וַ) va. “and”

and Bath-Sheba boweth and doth obeisance to the king, and the king saith, `What -- to thee?'

וַתִּקֹּ֣ד (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ (וַ) va. “and”וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And she saith to him, `My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah thy God to thy handmaid: Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne;

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

and he sacrificeth ox, and fatling, and sheep in abundance, and calleth for all the sons of the king, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab head of the host -- and for Solomon thy servant he hath not called.

וַ֠יִּזְבַּח (וַ֠) Va “and”וַיִּקְרָא֙ (וַ) va “and”

and it hath been, when my lord the king lieth with his fathers, that I have been, I and my son Solomon -- `reckoned' sinners.'

וְהָיָ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהָיִ֗יתִי (וְ) ve. “and”

and they declare to the king, saying, `Lo, Nathan the prophet;' and he cometh in before the king, and boweth himself to the king, on his face to the earth.

וַיַּגִּ֤ידוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּ֧חוּ (וַ) va “and”