H9002–/וְ–v

And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thy sight.

וַאדֹנִ֤י (וַ) va. “and”וַעֲשֵׂ֥ה (וַ) va. “and”

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; and thou didst set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table. What further right therefore have I? and for what should I cry any more to the king?

וּמַה־ (וּ) u. “and”וְלִזְעֹ֥ק (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

וְצִיבָ֔א (וְ) ve. “and”

And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ (וּ) u. “and”

And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְהֽוּא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁר֑וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וְלָמָּה֩ (וְ) ve. “and”

Thy servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it to me with this reward?

וְלָ֙מָּה֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham: let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what seems good to thee.

וְאָמֻ֣ת (וְ) ve. “so”וְאִמִּ֑י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִנֵּ֣ה׀ (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲשֵׂה־ (וַ) va. “and”

And the king said, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which seems good to thee; and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

וַאֲנִי֙ (וַ) va. “and”וְכֹ֛ל (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the people went over the Jordan; and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

וְהַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

וְכִמְהָ֖ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְגַ֕ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over the Jordan?

וְהִנֵּ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to me; and why then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten anything which came from the king, or has he given us any present?

וְלָ֤מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, I have ten parts in the king and I have also more right in David than thou; and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַדּ֙וּעַ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

וְשָׁ֨ם (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁמ֛וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”

Then all the men of Israel went up from after David, following Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clave to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

וְאִ֤ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

וַאֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”

And the king said to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and do thou attend here.

וְאַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities and escape our sight.

וּרְדֹ֣ף (וּ) u. “and”

And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

וְהַכְּרֵתִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַפְּלֵתִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab was girded with his coat, his dress, and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.

וַעֲמָשָׂ֖א (וַ) va. “and”וְיוֹאָ֞ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָלָ֞יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֥וּא (וְ) ve. “and”

And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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

And one of Joab's young men stood by [ergänzt: Amasa] and said, He that favours Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.

וְאִישׁ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

Now Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by stood still.

וַעֲמָשָׂ֛א (וַ) va. “and”

who went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-Maacah, and all the Berim; and they gathered together, and went also after him.

וּבֵ֥ית (וּ) u. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”