H9003–/ב–b

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”

The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, 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”

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

כְּבָרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה (בָ) va. “at the”

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 broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

בְּבַ֣עַל (בְּ) be. “at”

Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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

The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck 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 to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.

בְּתוֹכֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

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

בַּֽמְסִלּ֔וֹת (בַּֽ) ba “in the”

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who 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 to the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

בְּסֶ֣לַע (בְּ) be. “at”

The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck 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 to Benjamin as wife.

בַּמִּצְפָּ֖ה (בַּ) ba. “at <the>”

They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (בְּ) be. “in”

The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

בַקָּהָ֛ל (בַ) va. “in the”

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

בַֽיהוָ֔ה (בַֽ) ba. “by”

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

בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

בְּסֶ֣לַע (בְּ) be. “[were] at”

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 weren't enough for them.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

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

בְּשִׁבְטֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”

They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

בְּשִׁל֜וֹ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

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 you 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>”

It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities, and lived in them.

בָּהֶֽם׃ (בָּ) ba. “in <the>”

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

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”