With With Specific Temporal Reference Followed by

327 The boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the LORD and with men. Pc-Pa-ncms np vqPms Pc-ams Pc- ams Pc Pp-np Pc-Pc Pp-ncmp G +6 C 4 8 C 1 Sam 2:26 What is the function of these WE - X - QATAL clauses? How do they contribute to the overall narrative structure? These are important questions to address in the attempt to understand the nuances and movements of the biblical Hebrew text. Further research is needed to define the parameters of the interplay between and .

9.3.2.1.2.1.5 With

, , , , Following the same pattern as + , this expression establishes that the same night is the temporal setting for the events which it links together. On the same night the LORD said to him, “Take your fathers bull and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it; Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncms Pa- pi3ms Pc-vqw3ms PpX3ms np vqvms Po-ncms-Pa-ncms Pr Pp- ncmscX2ms Pc-ncms Pa-ams afs ncfp Pc-vqp2ms{2} Po-ncmsc Pa- np Pr Pp-ncmscX2ms Pc-Po-Pa-ncfs Pr-PpX3ms vqi2ms , ; ; L +- 5 - 8 ; 5 L Judg 6:25 On the same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncms Pa- pi3ms Pc-vqw3msXa ncmsc-np Pp- np Pp-vqc , 8 2 Sam 7:4 328 That same night the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead. Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncms Pa- pi3ms Pc-vqw3ms ncmsc np Pc- vhw3ms Pp-ncbsc np afs amp Pc- ams ams Pc-vhw3mp Pp+Pa-ncms Pc-Pi ncmscX3mp ncmp vqPmp 4 , + - 4 9 - 8 C , E 2 Kgs 19:35 That same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncms Pa- pi3ms Pc-vqw3msXa ncmsc-ncmp Pp-np Pp-vqc , 8 ? : 1 Chr 17:3

9.3.2.1.2.1.6 With

This plural expression is more general than the singular + . The temporal reference is to the preceding narrative as the backdrop for the upcoming events, but without any specific causal or logical connection. In those days, Moses grew up. He went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncmp Pa- pi3mp Pc-vqw3ms np Pc-vqw3ms Pp-ncmpcX3ms Pc-vqw3msXa Pp- ncfpcX3mp Pc-vqw3msXa ncms np vhPms ncms-np Pp-ncmpcX3ms C ? 8 Exod 2:11 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim. He took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah. Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncmp Pa- pi3mp Pc-ncms Pd Pp-np Pc- vqw3msXa ncms np vqPms Pp- ncfdc ncms-np Pc-vqw3ms-PpX3ms ncfs ncfs Pp np np F 4 G 8 H C - ; 1 Judg 19:1 329 In those days the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war, to fight against Israel. Pc-vqw3msXa Pp+Pa-ncmp Pa- pi3mp Pc-vqw3mp np Po- ncbpcX3mp Pp+Pa-ncbs Pp-vnc Pp- np 5 F , J 1 Sam 28:1

9.3.2.1.2.1.7 With