TBESH · H9001
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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/וַ (v) means “&” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וַ · v · &
Verbal vav: joined to verb with no intervening prefix (usually conversive) (futurepast)
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Page 105 of 227. 11323 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
“Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.
Read word by wordAnd Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
Read word by wordAhimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard and honored in your house?
Read word by wordBut the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
Read word by wordThen the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
Read word by wordSo the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Read word by wordBut one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.
Read word by wordAnd Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.
Read word by wordThen David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
Read word by wordNow it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”
Read word by wordSo David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Read word by wordBut David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
Read word by wordOnce again, David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
Read word by wordThen David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.
Read word by word(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)
Read word by wordWhen Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
Read word by wordThen Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
Read word by wordWhen David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
Read word by wordAnd David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.
Read word by wordWill the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.
Read word by wordSo David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.
Read word by wordThen David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.
Read word by wordAnd David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
Read word by wordWhile David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
Read word by wordAnd Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,
Read word by wordsaying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”
Read word by wordSo the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.
Read word by wordThen the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
Read word by word“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.
Read word by wordObserve and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
Read word by wordSo they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
Read word by wordand Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
Read word by wordSaul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
Read word by wordSo Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.
Read word by wordAnd David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.1
After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.2
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.3
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.4
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.5
Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.6
So he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.7
With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.8
After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.9
and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.10
Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.11
May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.13
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.16
When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.17
and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.18
When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go away unharmed? May the LORD reward you with good for what you have done for me this day.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 24.20
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