H9002–/וְ–v

And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

וְעָרִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְזֵיתִים֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.

וְעַתָּ֞ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְעִבְד֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֶֽאֱמֶ֑ת (וּ) u. “and”וְהָסִ֣ירוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְמִצְרַ֔יִם (וּ) u. “and”וְעִבְד֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my ho

וְאִם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָנֹכִ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֵיתִ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֧ר (וַ) va. “and”וּבְכֹל֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

וּלְחַטֹּאותֵיכֶֽם׃ (וּ) u. “and”

Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

וְעַתָּ֕ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַטּוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.

וּבְקוֹל֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט (וּ) u. “and”

Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

וָעֶ֖שֶׂר (וָ) va. “and”

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

וְכֹ֣ל׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר (וַ) va. “and”

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

וְאֶלְעָזָ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.

וְנִֽלָּחֲמָה֙ (וְ) ve. “so”

And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.

וְהַפְּרִזִּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.

וְרַגְלָֽיו׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.

וְרַגְלֵיהֶ֜ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

וְאַחַ֗ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַנֶּ֖גֶב (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַשְּׁפֵלָֽה׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

וְשֵׁם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

וְשֵׁם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.

וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

וּבְנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”