TBESH · H9009
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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/ה (ha) means “[the]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ha STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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Page 102 of 222. 11071 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
Read word by wordAt this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
Read word by wordWhen Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing and how the war was going.
Read word by wordThen he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
Read word by wordBut Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
Read word by wordUriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
Read word by word“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
Read word by wordIn the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
Read word by wordSo as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
Read word by wordAnd when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
Read word by wordJoab sent to David a full account of the battle
Read word by wordand instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,
Read word by wordif the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
Read word by wordWho struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
Read word by wordSo the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
Read word by wordThe messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
Read word by wordThen the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
Read word by wordThen David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
Read word by wordAnd when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Read word by wordNow a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”
Read word by wordDavid burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
Read word by wordBecause he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
Read word by wordThen Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
Read word by wordWhy then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Read word by wordNow, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
Read word by wordYou have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
Read word by wordNevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
Read word by wordAfter Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
Read word by wordDavid pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
Read word by wordThe elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
Read word by wordOn the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
Read word by wordWhen 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 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 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.
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