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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“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
Read word by wordWhere could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
Read word by wordThen Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
Read word by word“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
Read word by wordInstead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
Read word by wordSo Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
Read word by wordAnd Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
Read word by wordHer brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
Read word by wordWhen King David heard all this, he was furious.
Read word by wordTwo years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Read word by wordAnd he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
Read word by word“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
Read word by word“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.
Read word by wordBut Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.
Read word by wordSo Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
Read word by wordWhile they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”
Read word by wordThen the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. And all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
Read word by wordBut Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
Read word by wordSo now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
Read word by wordMeanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
Read word by wordSo Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
Read word by wordAnd as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
Read word by wordNow Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
Read word by wordAnd King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
Read word by wordNow Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
Read word by wordThen go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
Read word by wordWhen the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
Read word by word“What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.
Read word by wordAnd your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
Read word by wordNow the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
Read word by word“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
Read word by wordBut the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
Read word by word“If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”
Read word by word“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
Read word by wordThen the woman said, “Please, may your servant speak a word to my lord the king?” “Speak,” he replied.
Read word by wordThe woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
Read word by wordFor we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
Read word by wordNow therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
Read word by wordFor the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’
Read word by wordAnd now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
Read word by wordThen the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
Read word by wordSo the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
Read word by wordJoab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
Read word by wordThen the king said to Joab, “I hereby grant this request. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Read word by wordJoab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
Read word by wordBut the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the face of the king.
Read word by wordAnd when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
Read word by wordNow Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
Read word by wordThen he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
Read word by wordThen Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
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