H9002–/וְ–v

And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.

וְיַ֕עַל (וְ) ve. “so”וְיִפֹּ֖ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְזֶ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

וְגַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”וַעֲשֵׂה־ (וַ) va. “and”

And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”וַֽיהוָ֔ה (וַֽ) va. “and”

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;

וַהֲשִׁיבֵ֖הוּ (וַ) va. “and”וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

וְהַאֲכִילֻ֨הוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַ֣יִם (וּ) u. “and”

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

וְיהוֹשָׁפָ֥ט (וְ) v. “and”

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress and went into the fight.

וָבֹ֣א (וָ) va. “and”וְאַתָּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.

וּמֶ֣לֶךְ (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

וְהֵ֤מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the

וְאִ֗ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֵ֣ין (וּ) u. “and”וְהוֹצִיאֵ֥נִי (וְ) ve. “and”

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

וְהַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (וְ) ve. “and”

And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

וְאִ֥ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

וְהַזֹּנ֖וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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

And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

וִיהֽוֹשָׁפָט֙ (וִ) vi. “and”

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

וְחָמֵ֤שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָמֵשׁ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים (וּֽ) u. “and”

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

וְיֶ֨תֶר (וְ) ve. “and”וּגְבוּרָת֥וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר (וַ) va. “and”

He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

וְיֶ֙תֶר֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

At that time there was no king in Edom;

וּמֶ֥לֶךְ (וּ) u. “and”

And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not let them.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

וּבְדֶ֣רֶךְ (וּ) u. “and”וּבְדֶ֙רֶךְ֙ (וּ) u. “and”

But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

וּמַלְאַ֣ךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְדַבֵּ֣ר (וְ) ve. “and”

Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

וְלָכֵן֙ (וְ) ve. “and”