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 113 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 David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
Read word by wordThen David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.
Read word by word“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
Read word by wordDavid answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
Read word by wordThen David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
Read word by wordand sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
Read word by wordThen Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
Read word by wordNow, therefore, assemble the rest of the troops, lay siege to the city, and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city, and it will be named after me.”
Read word by wordSo David assembled all the troops and went to Rabbah; and he fought against it and captured it.
Read word by wordThen he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
Read word by wordDavid brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordAfter some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
Read word by wordAmnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
Read word by wordand he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
Read word by wordJonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
Read word by wordSo Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
Read word by wordThen David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
Read word by wordSo Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
Read word by wordThen she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
Read word by wordThen Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
Read word by wordAnd when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
Read word by word“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
Read word by wordBut Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.
Read word by wordThen Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
Read word by word“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
Read word by wordInstead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
Read word by wordSo Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
Read word by wordAnd Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
Read word by wordHer brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
Read word by wordWhen King David heard all this, he was furious.
Read word by wordTwo years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Read word by wordAnd he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
Read word by word“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
Read word by word“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.
Read word by wordBut Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.
Read word by wordNow Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
Read word by wordSo Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
Read word by wordWhile they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”
Read word by wordThen the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. And all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
Read word by wordBut Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
Read word by wordSo Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
Read word by wordAnd as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
Read word by wordNow Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
Read word by wordAfter Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.
Read word by wordAnd King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
Read word by wordNow Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
Read word by wordSo Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
Read word by wordThen go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
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