But when these things ¹  begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption ²  is drawing near.”

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day ¹  drawing near. ² 

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, ¹  which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, ¹  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ²  approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Israel and the Philistines drew up their battle lines opposite one another.

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles ¹  was near. ² 

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven ¹  across the Adriatic Sea, ²  about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. ³ 

¹ The Philistine kept coming closer to David, with his shield bearer walking in front of him.

So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; ¹  without knowledge he multiplies words.”

Now all the tax collectors ¹  and sinners were coming ²  to hear him.

“Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

Hear ¹  the sound of those who divide the sheep ²  among the watering places; there they tell of ³  the Lord’s victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors ⁴  in Israel. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

As he approached the road leading down from ¹  the Mount of Olives, ²  the whole crowd of his ³  disciples began to rejoice ⁴  and praise ⁵  God with a loud voice for all the mighty works ⁶  they had seen: ⁷ 

Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates. ¹ 

Blessed ¹  is the one ²  who finds ³  wisdom, and the one who obtains ⁴  understanding.

I will guide you ¹  in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. ² 

When ¹  he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. ²  After he sat down his disciples came to him.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats ¹  to murder ²  the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses. ¹ 

He found another man and said, “Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely. ¹