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 88 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.
After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Read word by wordTola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.
Read word by wordTola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Read word by wordHe had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
Read word by wordWhen Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
Read word by wordAnd again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
Read word by wordSo the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,
Read word by wordwho that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Read word by wordThe Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.
Read word by wordThen the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”
Read word by wordThe LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,
Read word by wordSidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
Read word by wordBut you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
Read word by word“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
Read word by wordSo they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
Read word by wordThen the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.
Read word by wordAnd the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
Read word by wordNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
Read word by wordAnd Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
Read word by wordSo Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
Read word by wordSome time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel
Read word by wordand made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
Read word by word“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
Read word by wordJephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
Read word by wordThey answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
Read word by wordBut Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
Read word by wordAnd the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
Read word by wordSo Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
Read word by wordThen Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”
Read word by wordThe king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
Read word by wordJephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
Read word by wordto tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
Read word by wordBut when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
Read word by wordThen Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.
Read word by wordThen Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
Read word by wordAnd Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’
Read word by wordBut Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
Read word by wordThen the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
Read word by wordseizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Read word by wordThen the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
Read word by wordJephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
Read word by wordthen whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
Read word by wordSo Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.
Read word by wordWith a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.
Read word by wordAnd when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
Read word by wordAs soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
Read word by word“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
Read word by wordShe also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
Read word by word“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
Read word by wordAfter two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
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