H9002–/וְ–v

And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.'

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “so”

Then she spoke, saying: 'They were wont to speak in old time, saying: They shall surely ask counsel at Abel; and so they ended the matter.

וְכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”

We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?'

וְאֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

וְאִם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city.' And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto

וְיוֹאָ֛ב (וְ) ve. “and”

Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

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

and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

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

and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

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

and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.

וְגַ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them--now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children o

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

and David said unto the Gibeonites: 'What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?'

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

And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.' And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?'

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

And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר (וַ) va. “and”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

וּבֵ֖ין (וּ) u. “and”

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

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

and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and they fell all seven together; and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

וְהֵ֨מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the f

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

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

וִיהוֹנָֽתָן־ (וִ) vi. “and”

And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines; and David waxed faint.

וַעֲבָדָ֥יו (וַ) va. “and”

And Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with new armour, thought to have slain David.

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