Then Abimelech asked ¹  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” ² 

The ropes of Sheol ¹  tightened around me; ²  the snares of death trapped me. ³ 

When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them, ¹ 

They met ¹  Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

From there we put out to sea ¹  and sailed under the lee ²  of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

Also some of the Epicurean ¹  and Stoic ²  philosophers were conversing ³  with him, and some were asking, ⁴  “What does this foolish babbler ⁵  want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.” ⁶  (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) ⁷ 

Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. ¹  They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors ²  trusted.’ ³ 

But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents ¹  and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force ²  of the waves.

Jehu encountered ¹  the relatives ²  of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how ³  the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.”

This is a message ¹  about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, ²  by snakes and darting adders, ³  they transport ⁴  their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them. ⁵