And a messenger came to Iyoḇ and said, “The oxen were ploughing and the donkeys feeding alongside them,
Then a messenger came to Dawiḏ, saying, “The hearts of the men of Yisra’ĕl are with Aḇshalom.”
And the day came to be when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born.
when Sheḇa fell upon them and took them away, and they struck the servants with the edge of the sword. And I alone have escaped to inform you!”
If you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes, would he plough the valleys behind you?
One runner runs to meet another, and one reporter to meet another, to report to the sovereign of Baḇel that his city is taken on all sides,
And the messenger answered and said, “Yisra’ĕl has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. And your two sons have died, Ḥophni and Pineḥas, and the ark of Elohim has been captured.”