H9034–הָ–ha

Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from

לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”מִלְא֛וּהָ (הָ) ha “it”

So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned

וְשֹׁפְטֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.

וְאֶבְנֶֽנָּה׃ (נָּה) nah “it”

And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

בָּֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

בָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways

בָּ֖הּ (הּ) h “it”

And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?

אַרְפֶּ֔הָ (הָ) ha “it”

And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpos

בָּ֗הּ (הּ) h “it”

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “it”

And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

בָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

בָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

עָלֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “it”

And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

אַחֲרֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “it”

And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.

בָ֔הּ (הּ) h “it”

If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place t

מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ (נָּה) nah “she”

After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.

עָלֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “her”

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

לָ֖הּ (הּ) h “her”לְקָחָ֧הּ (הּ) h “her”

And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant

לָ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”לָ֖הּ (הּ) h “her”וַיְשַׁנֶּ֧הָ (הָ) ha “her”

Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.

עָלֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her.

בָּֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “her”

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh an

לָ֜הּ (הּ) h “her”

And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

לָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “her”עִמָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”

In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by

בָּ֛הּ (הּ) h “her”

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And E

רֹאֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “her”

And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

וַיַּמְלִיכֶ֖הָ (הָ) ha “her”