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1. Judges 21:22 וְהָיָ֡ה

   When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”

2. Ruth 1:1 וַיְהִ֗יוַיְהִ֥י

   In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

3. Ruth 1:2 וַיִּֽהְיוּ־

   The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

4. Ruth 1:7 הָיְתָה־

   Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

5. Ruth 1:11 וְהָי֥וּ

   But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

6. Ruth 1:12 מִהְי֣וֹתהָיִ֤יתִי

   Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

7. Ruth 1:13 הֱי֣וֹת

   would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

8. Ruth 1:19 וַיְהִ֗י

   So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

9. Ruth 2:12 וּתְהִ֨י

   May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

10. Ruth 2:13 אֶֽהְיֶ֔ה

    “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

11. Ruth 2:17 וַיְהִ֖י

    So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

12. Ruth 2:19 יְהִ֥י

    Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

13. Ruth 3:2 הָיִ֖ית

    Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

14. Ruth 3:4 וִיהִ֣י

    When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”

15. Ruth 3:8 וַיְהִי֙

    At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!

16. Ruth 3:13 וְהָיָ֤ה

    Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”

17. Ruth 4:12 וִיהִ֤י

    And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

18. Ruth 4:13 וַתְּהִי־

    So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

19. Ruth 4:15 וְהָ֤יָה

    He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

20. Ruth 4:16 וַתְּהִי־

    And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.

21. 1 Samuel 1:1 וַיְהִי֩

    Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

22. 1 Samuel 1:2 וַיְהִ֤י

    He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

23. 1 Samuel 1:4 וַיְהִ֣י

    And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

24. 1 Samuel 1:12 וְהָיָה֙

    As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.

25. 1 Samuel 1:18 הָיוּ־

    “May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.

26. 1 Samuel 1:20 וַיְהִי֙

    So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”

27. 1 Samuel 1:28 הָיָ֔ה

    I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they worshiped the LORD there.

28. 1 Samuel 2:11 הָיָ֤ה

    Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.

29. 1 Samuel 2:17 וַתְּהִ֨י

    Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

30. 1 Samuel 2:27 בִּֽהְיוֹתָ֥ם

    Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?

31. 1 Samuel 2:31 מִֽהְי֥וֹת

    Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.

32. 1 Samuel 2:32 יִהְיֶ֥ה

    You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

33. 1 Samuel 2:36 וְהָיָ֗ה

    And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

34. 1 Samuel 3:1 הָיָ֤ה

    And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.

35. 1 Samuel 3:2 וַֽיְהִי֙

    And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.

36. 1 Samuel 3:9 וְהָיָה֙

    “Go and lie down,” he said to Samuel, “and if He calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

37. 1 Samuel 3:19 הָיָ֣ה

    And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.

38. 1 Samuel 4:1 וַיְהִ֥י

    Thus 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.

39. 1 Samuel 4:5 וַיְהִ֗י

    When the ark of the covenant of the LORD entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a great shout that it shook the ground.

40. 1 Samuel 4:7 הָיְתָ֛ה

    the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.

41. 1 Samuel 4:9 וִֽהְי֤וּוִהְיִיתֶ֥ם

    Take courage and be men, O Philistines! Otherwise, you will serve the Hebrews just as they served you. Now be men and fight!”

42. 1 Samuel 4:10 וַתְּהִ֥י

    So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

43. 1 Samuel 4:13 הָיָ֤ה

    When 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.

44. 1 Samuel 4:16 הָיָ֥ה

    “I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.

45. 1 Samuel 4:17 הָיְתָ֣ה

    The 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.”

46. 1 Samuel 4:18 וַיְהִ֞י

    As 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.

47. 1 Samuel 5:9 וַיְהִ֞יוַתְּהִ֨י

    But 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.

48. 1 Samuel 5:10 וַיְהִ֗י

    So 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!”

49. 1 Samuel 5:11 הָיְתָ֤ה

    Then the Ekronites assembled 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 heavy upon it.

50. 1 Samuel 6:1 וַיְהִ֧י

    When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,