[i] 3. The imperfect consecutive serves, in the cases treated under a–h, to represent either expressly, or at least to a great extent, a chronological succession of actions or events; elsewhere it expresses those actions, &c., which represent the logical consequence of what preceded, or a result arising from it by an inherent necessity. Thus the imperfect consecutive is used—
[k] (a) As a final summing up of the preceding narrative, e.g. Gn 2, 23 וַיָּ֫קָם הַשָּׂדֶה וג׳ so (in this way) the field became (legally) the property of Abraham, &c.; 1 S 17, 31.
[l] (b) To express a logical or necessary consequence of that which immediately precedes, e.g. Gn 39, Jb 2 and he still holdeth fast his integrity, וַתְּסִיתֵ֫נִי וג׳ so that thou thus (as it now appears) groundlessly movedst me against him; ψ 65 so that they are afraid ...; even a consequence which happens conditionally, Jer 20 וַתְּהִי so that my mother should have been ... Another instance of the kind perhaps (if the text be correct) is Jer 38 וַיָּ֫מָת so that he dies (must die).
[m] Rem. Such consecutive clauses frequently occur after interrogative sentences, e.g. Is 51 who art thou (i.e. art thou so helpless), וַהִּֽירְאִי that thou art (must needs be) afraid? ψ 144 (cf. ψ 8, where in a very similar context כִּי that is used with the imperfect); Gn 12 (וָֽאֶקַּח); 31:27 וָֽאֲשַׁלֵּֽחֲךָ so that I might have sent thee away.
4. As regards the range of time it is to be carefully noticed—
[n] (a) That the imperfect consecutive may represent all varieties in the relations of tense and mood, which, according to § 107 a, follow from the idea of the imperfect;
[o] (b) That the more precise determination of the range of time to which an imperfect consecutive relates must be inferred in each case from the character of the preceding tense (or tense-equivalent), to which it is attached, in a more or less close relation, as temporal or logical sequence. Thus the imperfect consecutive serves—
[p] (1) To represent actions, events, or states, which are past (or were repeated in past time), when it is united with tenses, or their equivalents, which refer to an actual past.
[q] Cf. the examples given above, under a and f, of the imperfect consecutive as an historic tense. The imperfect consecutive also frequently occurs as the continuation of a perfect (preterite) in a subordinate clause; e.g. Gn 27, Nu 11, Dt 4, 1 S 8, 1 K 2, 11, 18, &c.; also in Is 49 וַיִּבְחָרֶ֫ךָּ is the continuation of a preterite, contained, according to the sense, in the preceding נִֽאֱמָן. אֲשֶׁר.—In Jb 31, 34 the imperfect consecutive is joined to an imperfect denoting the past in a conditional sentence. An imperfect consecutive occurs in dependence on a perfect which has the sense of a pluperfect (§ 106 f), e.g. in Gn 26, 28f., 31:19, 34 (now Rachel had taken the teraphim, וַתְּשִׂמֵם and had
