H9002–/וְ–v

When Joab and all the host who was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

וְיוֹאָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.

וְלָדַ֜עַת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלָדַ֕עַת (וְ) ve. “and”

When Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David didn't know it.

וְדָוִ֖ד (וְ) ve. “and”

Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

וּמַמְלַכְתִּ֛י (וּ) u. “and”

let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.

וְאֶ֖ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְֽאַל־ (וְֽ) ve. “and”וּמְצֹרָ֞ע (וּ) u. “and”וּמַחֲזִ֥יק (וּ) u. “and”וְנֹפֵ֥ל (וְ) ve. “and”וַחֲסַר־ (וַ) va. “and”

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

וְיוֹאָב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲבִישַׁ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְחִגְר֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְסִפְד֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so did you fall. All the people wept again over him.

וְרַגְלֶ֙יךָ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down.

וְכֹ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

וְגָד֗וֹל (וְ) ve. “and”

I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness."

וְאָנֹכִ֨י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמָשׁ֣וּחַ (וּ) u. “and”וְהָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים (וְ) ve. “and”

When [ergänzt: Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

[ergänzt: Ish-bosheth], Saul's son, [ergänzt: had] two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin:

וּשְׁנֵ֣י (וּ) u. “and”וְשֵׁ֧ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

וְלִיהֽוֹנָתָן֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וִיהֽוֹנָתָ֜ן (וִ) vi. “and”וּשְׁמ֥וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

וּבַעֲנָ֔ה (וּ) u. “and”וְה֣וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

וְ֠הֵנָּה (וְ֠) Ve. “and”וְרֵכָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַעֲנָ֥ה (וּ) u. “and”

Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

וְהֽוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

וּמִזַּרְעֽוֹ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

וְהֽוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”

David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

וּֽבְשָׂרְךָ֖ (וּֽ) u. “and”