H9001–/וַ–v

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

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

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

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

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.

וַיְמַלֵּ֥א (וַ) va “and”

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin 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, according to all that his father had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

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

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it;

וַיָּבֹ֛א (וַ) va “and”

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

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

He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.

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

He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

וְהִגְלָ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

וַיֶּ֥גֶל (וַ) va “and”

All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

וַיְבִיאֵ֧ם (וַ) va “and”

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, [ergänzt: Jehoiachin's] father's brother, king is his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ (וַ) va “and”

For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

וַיִּמְרֹ֥ד (וַ) va “and”

It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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

So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

וַתָּבֹ֥א (וַ) va. “and”

On the ninth day of the [ergänzt: fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק (וַ) va “and”

Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [ergänzt: fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [ergänzt: the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

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

But 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”

Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.

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

They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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

He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”

The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

וַיִּקַּ֣ח (וַ) va “and”