TBESH · H9002
/וְ · v · and
Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
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/וְ (v) means “and” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: v STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/וְ · v · and
Conjunctive vav - i.e. followed by prefix, suffix or non-verb (conjunctive) (‘and/but’)
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Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
Read word by wordSo the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
Read word by wordAnd during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
Read word by wordThen I took my concubine, cut her into pieces, and sent her throughout the land of Israel’s inheritance, because they had committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
Read word by wordBehold, all you Israelites, give your advice and verdict here and now.”
Read word by wordThen all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
Read word by wordNow this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.
Read word by wordWe will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
Read word by wordHand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.
Read word by wordOn that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
Read word by wordAmong all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Read word by wordThe Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
Read word by wordAnd the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
Read word by wordThen the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,
Read word by wordand Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
Read word by wordThe Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Read word by word“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
Read word by wordSo all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
Read word by wordThen 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 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 had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
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 wordThat day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
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 wordNow the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
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 wordWhat should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
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 wordThis is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
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 wordThe people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
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 wordBut we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”
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 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 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.
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