J.F. Diehl analyses those imperatives within the Hebrew Bible which are continued by other imperatives (chapter 2), by imperfects (chapter 3), by perfectum consecutivum (chapter 4) or by imperfects that are seperated from a preceding waw by a further element ("w.x.imperf") (chapter 5). These various kinds of continuations might be considered as implicit hypotactic and are confronted with explicit hypotactic constructions (chapter 6). Within chains of clauses that consist only of imperatives or of imperatives and imperfects the emphasis is on the last element of the chain; whereas in those chains that consist of imperativs and perfectum consecutivum, emphasis is on the imperatives. Chains ending in "w.x.imperf"  might emphasise the first or the last clause.

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