H9001–/וַ–v

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim was his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

וַיְהִי־ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֖שָׁב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמְרָד־ (וַ) va “and”

And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.

וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”וַיְשַׁלְּחֵ֥ם (וַ) va “and”

and also [ergänzt: because of] the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah would not pardon.

וַיְמַלֵּ֥א (וַ) va “and”

And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

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

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, while his servants were besieging it.

וַיָּבֹ֛א (וַ) va “and”

And Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his chamberlains; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

וַיֵּצֵ֞א (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

And he brought out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had said.

וַיּוֹצֵ֣א (וַ) va “and”וַיְקַצֵּ֞ץ (וַ) va “and”

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained but the poorest sort of the people of the land.

וְהִגְלָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his chamberlains, and the mighty of the land, he led into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon;

וַיֶּ֥גֶל (וַ) va “and”

and all the men of valour, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all strong men apt for war, and the king of Babylon brought them captive to Babylon.

וַיְבִיאֵ֧ם (וַ) va “and”

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

וַיַּמְלֵ֧ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּסֵּ֥ב (וַ) va “and”

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

For, because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and against Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [ergänzt: that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּ֣חַן (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְנ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

On the ninth of the [ergänzt: fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [ergänzt: fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [ergänzt: leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.

וַתִּבָּקַ֣ע (וַ) va. “and”וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

וַיִּרְדְּפ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשִּׂ֥גוּ (וַ) va “and”

And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

וַֽיִּתְפְּשׂוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲל֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

וַיַּאַסְרֵ֙הוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְבִאֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”

and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [ergänzt: man's] house he burned with fire.

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the brass thereof to Babylon.

וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”