And there came to be a man of Beliyaʽ
And all Yisra’ĕ
And when all Yisra’ĕ
‘Some men, sons of Beliyaʽ
‘But those enemies of mine who did not wish me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”
“But his subjects were hating him, and sent a delegation after him, to say, ‘We do not wish this one to reign over us.’
As charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Do not go forth to strive in haste, For what would you do in the end, When your neighbour has put you to shame?
Many are the evils of the righteous, But יהוה delivers him out of them all.
Arise, O יהוה, Confront him, cause him to bend; Deliver my being from the wrong by Your sword,
Then Sovereign Reḥ
“But the worthless are all as thorns thrust away, For they are not taken with hands,
But Aḇ
And all the evil and worthless men of those who went with Dawiḏ
And the sons of Ě
They were making their hearts glad, and see, men of the city, sons of Beliyaʽ
And it came to be, when he arrived, that he blew the ram’s horn in the mountains of Ephrayim, and the children of Yisra’ĕ
Kĕ
And the sons of Binyamin: Belah, and Beḵ
Sha’ul chose for himself three thousand men of Yisra’ĕ
And this is what Shimʽ
And they took Aḇ
Then all the men of Yisra’ĕ
So the woman in her wisdom went to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheḇ
and seat two men, sons of Beliyaʽ
And she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. As it turned out, she came to the part of the field belonging to Boʽ
And Dawiḏ
“And if a reign is divided against itself, that reign is unable to stand.