Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” ¹  So we did so. ² 

Drink from the stream; I have already told ¹  the ravens to bring you food ²  there.”

After a while, ¹  the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head. ¹ 

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea. ¹ 

The words of a person’s mouth are like ¹  deep waters, ²  and ³  the fountain of wisdom ⁴  is like ⁵  a flowing brook. ⁶ 

The lotus trees conceal it in their ¹  shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. ¹ 

So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there. ¹ 

David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh, ¹  but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, ¹  and ended at the sea. This was their ²  southern border.

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near ¹  Jokneam.

So he did ¹  as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees ¹  – palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook – and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

Do to them as you did to Midian ¹  – as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! ²