King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  King Asa used the materials to build up ²  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

After he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons ¹  are free.

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary ¹  and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so ¹  to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.”

“Only the tribe of Levi ¹  you must not number ²  or count ³  with ⁴  the other Israelites.

But the Levites were not numbered among the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.

But whoever is among ¹  the living ²  has hope; a live dog is better than a dead lion.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine ¹  from their diet ²  and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

He will extend his power ¹  against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape.

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters. ¹ 

The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; ¹  everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. ² 

But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” ¹ 

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

But if you do not experience discipline, ¹  something all sons ²  have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

So Joseph made it a statute, ¹  which is in effect ²  to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

When such a person ¹  hears the words of this oath he secretly ²  blesses himself ³  and says, “I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” ⁴  This will destroy ⁵  the watered ground with the parched. ⁶