All those selected to be gatekeepers at the entrances numbered 212. Their names were recorded in the genealogical records of their settlements. David and Samuel the prophet ¹  had appointed them to their positions. ² 

But as it is, ¹  you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

the descendants of Azgad: 1,222;

Now I am sending you Huram Abi, ¹  a skilled and capable man,

“Son of man, turn toward ¹  the south, ²  and speak out against the south. ³  Prophesy against the open scrub ⁴  land of the Negev,

Soon ¹  I will expose her lewd nakedness ²  in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me! ³ 

The sons of Eli were wicked men. ¹  They did not recognize the Lord’s authority. ² 

Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.

“Listen carefully ¹  to my words; let this be ²  the consolation you offer me. ³ 

to deliver ¹  you from the way of the wicked, ²  from those ³  speaking perversity, ⁴ 

As for peres ¹  – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead ¹  – he who starts ²  a town by unjust deeds.

“You ¹  Ethiopians ²  will also die by my sword!” ³ 

(21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ¹  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

Where now is the den of the lions, ¹  the feeding place ²  of the young lions, where ³  the lion, lioness, ⁴  and lion cub once prowled ⁵  and no one disturbed them? ⁶ 

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory ¹  he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil ²  of his ³  eye.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) ¹  is not from the Father, but is from the world.

(The gold of that land is pure; ¹  pearls ²  and lapis lazuli ³  are also there).

except for his close relative who is near to him: ¹  his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,

Then Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.