The Lord watches over the innocent day by day ¹  and they possess a permanent inheritance. ² 

Yet because of you ¹  we are killed all day long; we are treated like ²  sheep at the slaughtering block. ³ 

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! ¹  Do not let their names be listed with the godly! ² 

They treat me like ¹  those who descend into the grave. ²  I am like a helpless man, ³ 

Over here is the deep, wide sea, ¹  which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, ²  living things both small and large.

But many of those who had listened to ¹  the message ²  believed, and the number of the men ³  came to about five thousand.

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. ¹  No one can thwart you! ²  I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount! ³ 

“‘You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks. ¹ 

You must count fifty days – until the day after the seventh Sabbath – and then ¹  you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.

You and Aaron are to number ¹  all in Israel who can serve in the army, ²  those who are ³  twenty years old or older, ⁴  by their divisions. ⁵ 

“Only the tribe of Levi ¹  you must not number ²  or count ³  with ⁴  the other Israelites.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take ¹  the number of their names.

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ¹  from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered ¹  the army, ²  and he and the leaders ³  of Israel marched ⁴  at the head of it ⁵  to Ai.

Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven. ¹ 

In the spring ¹  Ben Hadad mustered the Syrian army ²  and marched to Aphek to fight Israel. ³ 

Now Joab ¹  did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. ¹  Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

(2:1) Solomon had ¹  70,000 common laborers ²  and 80,000 stonecutters ³  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. ⁴