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 112 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.
When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.
Read word by wordAnd he placed the rest of the troops under the command of his brother Abishai, who arrayed them against the Ammonites.
Read word by word“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
Read word by wordSo Joab and his troops advanced to fight the Arameans, who fled before him.
Read word by wordWhen the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordWhen the Arameans saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they regrouped.
Read word by wordHadadezer sent messengers to bring more Arameans from beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam with Shobach the commander of Hadadezer’s army leading them.
Read word by wordWhen this was reported to David, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan, and went to Helam. Then the Arameans arrayed themselves against David and fought against him.
Read word by wordBut the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.
Read word by wordWhen all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
Read word by wordIn the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
Read word by wordOne evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Read word by wordSo David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
Read word by wordThen David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
Read word by wordAnd the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
Read word by wordAt this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
Read word by wordWhen Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
Read word by wordThen he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
Read word by wordBut Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
Read word by wordAnd David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
Read word by wordUriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
Read word by word“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
Read word by wordThen David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
Read word by wordThe next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
Read word by wordIn the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
Read word by wordSo as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
Read word by wordAnd when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
Read word by wordJoab sent to David a full account of the battle
Read word by wordand instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
Read word by wordif the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
Read word by wordWho struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
Read word by wordSo the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
Read word by wordThe messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
Read word by wordThen the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
Read word by wordThen David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
Read word by wordWhen Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
Read word by wordAnd when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Read word by wordThen the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
Read word by wordbut the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
Read word by wordNow a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
Read word by wordDavid burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
Read word by wordThen Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
Read word by wordI gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.
Read word by wordNow, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
Read word by wordThen David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
Read word by wordAfter Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
Read word by wordDavid pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
Read word by wordThe elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
Read word by wordOn the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
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