H9001–/וַ–v

Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.

וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ (וַ) va “and”

It happened, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.

וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ (וְ) ve. “and”

I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

וְהֹסַפְתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַנּוֹתִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְח֛וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּשִׂ֥ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֶּֽחִי׃ (וַ) va “and”

Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְעָלִ֛יתִי (וְ) ve. “and”

Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

וַיִּקְרָ֛א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֣שֶׁב (וַ) va “and”

Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֣ע (וַ) va “and”וַיַּרְאֵ֣ם (וַ) va “and”

Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

וַיָּבֹא֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

He said, What have they seen in your house? Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.

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

Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.

וְנִשָּׂ֣א׀ (וְ) ve. “and”

Of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you shall father, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

וְהָיוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken. He said moreover, Isn't it so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?

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

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

וַיָּבֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ (וַ) va “and”

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.

וַיָּ֗שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֙בֶן֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֨קֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיַּ֤עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖ד (וַֽ) va “and”

He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

וּבָנָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

וַיִּ֥בֶן (וַ) va “and”

He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

וְהֶעֱבִ֤יר (וְ) ve. “and”וְעוֹנֵ֣ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְנִחֵ֔שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָ֥שָׂה (וְ) ve. “and”

He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;

וַיָּ֕שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

וַיַּתְעֵ֤ם (וַ) va “and”