H9002–/וְ–v

And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “so”

Then she said, In the old days, there was a saying, Let them put the question in Abel and in Dan, saying, Has what was ordered by men of good faith in Israel ever come to an end?

וְכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”

Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?

וְאֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab, answering her, said, Far, far be it from me to be a cause of death or destruction;

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wal

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

וְיוֹאָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”

Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

וְיוֹאָ֕ב (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנָיָה֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

וַאֲדֹרָ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”וִיהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט (וִ) vi. “and”

And Sheva was the scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

וּשְׁוָ֖א (וּ) u. “and”וְצָד֥וֹק (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶבְיָתָ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”

And in addition, Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.

וְגַ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an

וְהַגִּבְעֹנִ֞ים (וְ) ve. “and”וּבְנֵ֤י (וּ) u. “and”וִיהוּדָֽה׃ (וִ) vi. “and”

So David said to the Gibeonites, What may I do for you? how am I to make up to you for your wrongs, so that you may give a blessing to the heritage of the Lord?

וּבַמָּ֣ה (וּ) u. “and”וּבָרְכ֖וּ (וּ) u. “and”

And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?

וְזָהָב֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵֽין־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,

וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (וַ) va. “and”

But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.

וּבֵ֖ין (וּ) u. “and”

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

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

And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.

וְהֵ֨מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of t

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

And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Sa

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.

וִיהוֹנָֽתָן־ (וִ) vi. “and”

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

וַעֲבָדָ֥יו (וַ) va. “and”

And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.

וְיִשְׁבִּ֨י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁקַ֤ל (וּ) u. “and”וְה֖וּא (וְ) ve. “and”