H9002–/וְ–v

For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

וְכַמַּ֙יִם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

וְ֠עַתָּה (וְ֠) Ve. “and”

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.

וְהָרָ֔ע (וְ) ve. “and”וַֽיהוָ֥ה (וַֽ) va. “and”

The king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? The woman answered, As your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

וּלְהַשְׂמִ֗יל (וּ) u. “and”וְה֗וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

וַאדֹנִ֣י (וַ) va. “and”

The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

וְלֵ֛ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.

וּפָנַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”וּפְנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

וּכְאַבְשָׁל֗וֹם (וּ) u. “and”וְעַ֣ד (וְ) ve. “and”

When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

וּֽבְגַלְּחוֹ֮ (וּֽ) u. “and”

To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

וּבַ֥ת (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁמָ֣הּ (וּ) u. “and”

Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem; and he didn't see the king's face.

וּפְנֵ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Therefore he said to his servants, Behold, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire. Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

וְלוֹ־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַצִּית֣וּהָ (וְ) ve. “and”

Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

וְאֶשְׁלְחָה֩ (וְ) ve. “so”וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

וְסֻסִ֑ים (וְ) ve. “and”וַחֲמִשִּׁ֥ים (וַ) va. “and”

Absalom said to him, Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized of the king to hear you.

וּנְכֹחִ֑ים (וּ) u. “and”וְשֹׁמֵ֥עַ (וְ) ve. “and”

Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!

וְעָלַ֗י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט (וּ) u. “and”

It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

וַאֲשַׁלֵּ֛ם (וַ) va. “so”

With Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֹלְכִ֣ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

וְהָעָ֛ם (וְ) ve. “and”וָרָ֖ב (וָ) va. “and”

David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.

וְנִבְרָ֔חָה (וְ) ve. “so”

The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

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