H9001–/וַ–v

And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”

And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

וַיָּ֙סַר֙ (וַ) va “and”וַתִּשְׁקֹ֥ט (וַ) va. “and”

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

וַיִּ֛בֶן (וַ) va “and”

He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥נַֽח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּבְנ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּצְלִֽיחוּ׃ (וַ) va “and”

And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

וַיֵּצֵ֨א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֖א (וַ) va “and”

And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.

וַיֵּצֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעַרְכוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O L

וַיִּקְרָ֨א (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמַר֒ (וַ) va “and”

So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

וַיִּגֹּ֤ף (וַ) va “and”וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ (וַ) va “and”

And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they t

וַיִּרְדְּפֵ֨ם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּפֹּ֤ל (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

וַיַּכּ֗וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֙זּוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

וַיִּשְׁבּ֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ (וַ) va “and”

And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

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

But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְבַקְשֻׁ֖הוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמָּצֵ֥א (וַ) va “and”

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

וְכֻתְּת֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new a

וַיַּעֲבֵ֤ר (וַ) va “and”וַיְחַדֵּשׁ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

וַיִּקְבֹּ֗ץ (וַ) va “and”

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

וַיִּקָּבְצ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

וַיִּזְבְּח֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ (וַ) va “and”

And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

וַיִּשָּֽׁבְעוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

וַיִּשְׂמְח֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּמָּצֵ֖א (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֧נַח (וַ) va “and”

And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

וַיִּכְרֹ֤ת (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֕דֶק (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף (וַ) va “and”

He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

וַיָּבֵ֞א (וַ) va “and”

In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

וַיִּ֖בֶן (וַ) va “and”