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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Page 97 of 313. 15632 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.
Read word by wordNow Samuel did not yet know the LORD, because the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.
Read word by wordOn that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his house, from beginning to end.
Read word by wordI told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
Read word by wordTherefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
Read word by wordSamuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,
Read word by word“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”
Read word by wordSo Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
Read word by wordAnd Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
Read word by wordSo all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.
Read word by wordThus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
Read word by wordWhen the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
Read word by wordSo the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Read word by wordTake courage and be men, O Philistines! Otherwise, you will serve the Hebrews just as they served you. Now be men and fight!”
Read word by wordThe ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
Read word by wordThat same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.
Read word by wordWhen he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
Read word by wordEli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.
Read word by wordNow Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.
Read word by word“I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.
Read word by wordThe messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Read word by wordAs soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
Read word by wordNow Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
Read word by wordAs she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
Read word by wordAnd she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
Read word by wordAfter the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
Read word by wordWhen the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
Read word by wordBut when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
Read word by wordThat is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
Read word by wordNow the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
Read word by wordAnd when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
Read word by wordBut after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
Read word by wordSo they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
Read word by wordThen the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
Read word by wordThose who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
Read word by wordthe Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”
Read word by word“What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
Read word by wordMake images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
Read word by wordWhy harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people out so they could go on their way?
Read word by wordNow, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
Read word by wordTake the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
Read word by wordbut keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
Read word by wordSo the men did as instructed. They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and penned up their calves.
Read word by wordThen they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.
Read word by wordAnd the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
Read word by wordNow the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.
Read word by wordThe cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the chest containing the gold objects, and they placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.
Read word by wordAs a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.
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