Study it in the app“then if the king’s wrath rises, and he says to you, ‘Why did you go near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?”
then ifוְהָיָה אִםthe king’sהַמֶּלֶךְwrathחֲמַתrises,תַּעֲלֶהand he saysוְאָמַרto you,לְךָ‘Whyמַדּוּעַdid you go nearנִגַּשְׁתֶּםtoאֶלthe cityהָעִירto fight?לְהִלָּחֵםDid you notהֲלוֹאknowיְדַעְתֶּםthatאֲשֶׁרthey would shootיֹרוּfromמֵעַלthe wall?הַחוֹמָה
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “haya” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsfury
Literally "heat": burning anger, of a person or of YHWH.
Where else “chamat” appearsrise
To rise: the sun, the smoke.
Where else “taale” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearswhy?
Why? For what reason?
Where else “madua” appearscome near
To go until one is near someone or something.
Where else “nigashtem” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsfight
To struggle against an enemy with weapons and give battle; God also fights for his people.
Where else “hilachem” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yedatem” appearsshoot
To loose arrows from a bow and wound with them.
Where else “yoru” appearswall
Wall, city wall.
Where else “choma” appears19He commanded the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the matters of the battle to the king,
20 · This verse (above)
21Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go near to the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”
