H9003–/ב–b

And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”בְּפָֽעַם׃ (בְּ) be. “on”

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

בְּפַ֗עַם (בְּ) be. “on”בַּֽמְסִלּוֹת֙ (בַּֽ) ba “in the”בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.

כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה (בָ) va. “at the”

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel brake forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.

בְּבַ֣עַל (בְּ) be. “at”

And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.

בְּבִנְיָמִן֙ (בְּ) be. “among”בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”

And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּאִֽישׁ־ (בְּ) be. “among”

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.

בְּתוֹכֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

בַּֽמְסִלּ֔וֹת (בַּֽ) ba “in the”

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [ergänzt: were] men of valor.

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”

But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

בְּסֶ֣לַע (בְּ) be. “at”

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

בָאֵֽשׁ׃ (בָ) va. “in <the>”

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

בַּמִּצְפָּ֖ה (בַּ) ba. “at <the>”

And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (בְּ) be. “in”

And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

בַקָּהָ֛ל (בַ) va. “in the”

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

בַֽיהוָ֔ה (בַֽ) ba. “by”

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

And the whole congregation sent and spake to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace unto them.

בְּסֶ֣לַע (בְּ) be. “[were] at”

And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Jehovah had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”

And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

בְּשִׁל֜וֹ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

בַּכְּרָמִֽים׃ (בַּ) ba. “in the”

and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

בַּמְּחֹלוֹת֒ (בַּ) ba. “in <the>”

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us, because we took not for each man [ergänzt: of them] his wife in battle, neither did ye give them unto them, else would ye now be guilty.

בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

בָּהֶֽם׃ (בָּ) ba. “in <the>”

And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”