Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.

and I returned to Jerusalem. Then I discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by supplying him with a storeroom in the courts of the temple of God.

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, ¹  at my slaughter ²  which I have made for you.

For our momentary, light suffering ¹  is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him. ¹ 

“As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter ¹  which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ¹  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ²  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ³ )

The Philistines went up and invaded ¹  Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle ²  in Lehi.

Distress and anguish ¹  terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, ² 

Deliverance goes ¹  before him, and prepares ²  a pathway for him. ³ 

Madmenah flees, the residents of Gebim have hidden.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared. ¹ 

But Jesus ¹  said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet ²  and invited ³  many guests. ⁴ 

that the person dedicated to God ¹  may be capable ²  and equipped for every good work.

You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord who rules over all.

She also gets up ¹  while it is still night, and provides food ²  for her household and a portion ³  to her female servants.

Before ¹  Jesus ²  arrived, John ³  had proclaimed a baptism for repentance ⁴  to all the people of Israel.

So do what ¹  we tell you: We have four men ²  who have taken ³  a vow; ⁴ 

Before they could lie down to sleep, ¹  all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. ² 

The Ammonites assembled ¹  and camped in Gilead; the Israelites gathered together and camped in Mizpah.