H9033–וֹ–o

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

ל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali an

אֵלָ֜יו (ו) v “him”

And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.

וּנְתַתִּ֖יהוּ (הוּ) hu “him”

Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

עִמּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

So Sisera got together all his war-carriages, nine hundred war-carriages of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles as far as the river Kishon.

אִתּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.

אַחֲרָֽיו׃ (ו) v “him”

And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.

אֵלָ֗יו (ו) v “him”וַתְּכַסֵּ֖הוּ (הוּ) hu “him”

Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.

וַתַּשְׁקֵ֖הוּ (הוּ) hu “him”וַתְּכַסֵּֽהוּ׃ (הוּ) hu “him”

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end.

אֵלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

לִקְרָאת֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”ל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.

וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו (ו) v “him”

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

עָלָֽיו׃ (ו) v “him”

And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

אֵלָ֖יו (ו) v “him”אֵלָ֔יו (ו) v “him”

Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us o

אֵלָ֤יו (ו) v “him”

And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you?

אֵלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

אֵלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

אֵלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.

אֵלָ֔יו (ו) v “him”

Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him the

אֵלָ֛יו (ו) v “him”

And the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them down on the rock over there, draining out the soup over them. And he did so.

אֵלָ֜יו (ו) v “him”

But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death.

ל֧וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

ל֥וֹ (וֹ) o “it”

The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

ל֣וֹ (וֹ) o “him”עָלָ֖יו (ו) v “it”

Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night.

אֵלָ֖יו (ו) v “him”

And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there.

עָלָ֖יו (ו) v “it”