H9001–/וַ–v

For Solomon had made a platform of bronze, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and he kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens,

וַֽיִּתְּנֵהוּ֮ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְרַ֤ךְ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ (וַ) va “and”

and said, Jehovah, God of Israel! there is no God like thee, in the heavens or on the earth, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;

וַיֹּאמַ֗ר (וַ) va “and”

who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled [ergänzt: it] with thy hand as at this day.

וַתְּדַבֵּ֥ר (וַ) va. “and”

Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee;

וּפָנִ֜יתָ (וּ) u. “and”

And hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place, and hear thou from thy dwelling-place, from the heavens, and when thou hearest, forgive.

וְשָׁ֨מַעְתָּ֜ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָלָֽחְתָּ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

וְנָֽשָׁא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבָ֗א (וּ) u. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁפַטְתָּ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”

And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house;

וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוֹד֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֧וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֛וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land that thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔ (וְ) ve. “and”וַהֲשֵׁיבוֹתָם֙ (וַ) va. “and”

When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֞וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהוֹד֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

וְסָ֨לַחְתָּ֜ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָתַתָּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man his own plague, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;

וּפָרַ֥שׂ (וּ) u. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of the children of men),

וְסָ֣לַחְתָּ֔ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָתַתָּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand and thy stretched-out arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house,

וּבָ֣א׀ (וּ) u. “and”וּבָ֥אוּ (וּ) u. “and”וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; in order that all peoples of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee as do thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

וְהִתְפַּֽלְל֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”

If they have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not), and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto a land far off or near;

וְאָנַפְתָּ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”וּנְתַתָּ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”וְשָׁב֧וּם (וְ) ve. “and”

and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done iniquity and have dealt perversely;

וְהֵשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁ֣בוּ׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְחַנְּנ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;

וְשָׁ֣בוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽתְפַּֽלְל֗וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

then hear thou from the heavens, from the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their right, and forgive thy people their sin against thee.

וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֨ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָלַחְתָּ֥ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.

וַתֹּ֥אכַל (וַ) va. “and”

And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped and thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [ergänzt: endureth] for ever.

וַיִּכְרְעוּ֩ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּֽשְׁתַּֽחֲו֔וּ (וַ) va “and”

And king Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

וַיִּזְבַּ֞ח (וַ) va “and”וַֽיַּחְנְכוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offerings, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt-offerings and the oblations and the fat.

וַיְקַדֵּ֣שׁ (וַ) va “and”