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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Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Read word by wordThe LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
Read word by wordThen the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
Read word by wordThe men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
Read word by wordthe men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
Read word by wordBut when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
Read word by wordThen the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
Read word by wordSo they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
Read word by wordAnd 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordThen the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
Read word by wordThat day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordBut 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
Read word by wordAnd the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
Read word by wordSo the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Read word by word“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
Read word by wordThe next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Read word by wordThe Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
Read word by wordAnd the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
Read word by wordSo they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
Read word by wordFor when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Read word by wordSo the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
Read word by wordSo they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordThen the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
Read word by wordAnd at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
Read word by wordThen the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
Read word by wordThey added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
Read word by word“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
Read word by wordSo they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
Read word by wordand watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Read word by wordWhen their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
Read word by wordThe Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
Read word by wordAnd at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
Read word by wordIn the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
Read word by wordThe man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
Read word by wordThen Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,
Read word by wordwho took Moabite women as their wives, one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. And after they had lived in Moab about ten years,
Read word by wordboth Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
Read word by wordWhen Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Read word by wordAccompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
Read word by wordThen Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
Read word by wordMay the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
Read word by wordand said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
Read word by wordBut Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
Read word by wordAgain they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
Read word by word“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
Read word by wordBut Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Read word by wordWhen Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
Read word by wordSo Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
Read word by word“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
Read word by wordSo Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
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