H9002–/וְ–v

Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;

וַאֲנָשִׁ֨ים (וַ) va. “and”וַהֲדַ֖ד (וַ) va. “and”

And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.

וְלֶ֙חֶם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶ֖רֶץ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.

וַהֲדַ֞ד (וַ) va. “and”וְכִי־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵלֵ֥ךְ (וְ) ve. “so”

But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.

וְהִנְּךָ֥ (וְ) ve. “and”

He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.

וְיָרָבְעָם֩ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁ֤ם (וְ) ve. “and”

The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

וְזֶ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

וְהָאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.

וְיָֽרָבְעָ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְה֤וּא (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׁנֵיהֶ֥ם (וּ) u. “and”

(But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)

וְהַשֵּׁ֥בֶט (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְמַ֙עַן֙ (וּ) u. “and”

Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws

וּלְמִלְכֹּ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֻקֹּתַ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because of David my servant, in whom I took delight because he kept my orders and my laws.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְחֻקֹּתָֽי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.

וְלִבְנ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

וְאֹתְךָ֣ (וְ) ve. “and”

And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will

וּמִצְוֹתַ֔י (וּ) u. “and”

(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)

וַֽאעַנֶּ֛ה (וַֽ) va. “so”

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all he did, and his wisdom, are they not recorded in the book of the acts of Solomon?

וְיֶ֨תֶר (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָכְמָת֑וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

וְהַיָּמִ֗ים (וְ) ve. “and”

And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

וְהוּא֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

וְאַתָּ֡ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּמֵעֻלּ֧וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וְנַעַבְדֶֽךָּ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

וְשׁ֣וּבוּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

וְנָשִׁ֥יב (וְ) ve. “and”

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

וְאַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַאֲנִ֖י (וַ) va. “and”וַאֲנִ֕י (וַ) va. “and”