H9002–/וְ–v

They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who 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! Please say to Joab, 'Come near here, that I may speak with you.'"

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֖ה (וַ) va. “so”

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

וְכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?

וְאֵם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

Joab answered, 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, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

וְאֵלְכָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “so”

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

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 men subject to forced labor; 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 also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.

וְגַ֗ם (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to 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 to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

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

and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?

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

The Gibeonites said to 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. He said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

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

They said to the king, The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, [ergänzt: that] we should be 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 Yahweh'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 to 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”

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [ergänzt: all] seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

וְהֵ֨מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “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 street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that God was entreated for the land.

וִיהוֹנָֽתָן־ (וִ) vi. “and”

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

וַעֲבָדָ֥יו (וַ) va. “and”

and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [ergänzt: shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [ergänzt: sword], thought to have slain David.

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