Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, ¹  my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

¹ When ²  Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality ³  with the daughters of Moab.

When all the men ¹  had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.

O Lord, ¹  I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

I myself ¹  have seen the fool ²  taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence. ³ 

If ¹  I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

If the Lord had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death. ¹ 

The Lord’s curse ¹  is on the household ²  of the wicked, ³  but he blesses ⁴  the home ⁵  of the righteous. ⁶ 

So Jeremiah remained confined ¹  in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem ²  was captured.The following events occurred when Jerusalem ³  was captured. ⁴ 

So ¹  Mary stayed with Elizabeth ²  about three months ³  and then returned to her home.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking ¹  him to stay with them. ²  He stayed there two days,

So when he heard that Lazarus ¹  was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two more days.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast ¹  at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea. ² 

and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them ¹  (for they were tentmakers ²  by trade). ³ 

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

You will bring them in ¹  and plant them in the mountain ²  of your inheritance, in the place you made ³  for your residence, O Lord, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

You also know that ¹  the angels who did not keep within their proper domain ²  but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept ³  in eternal chains ⁴  in utter ⁵  darkness, locked up ⁶  for the judgment of the great Day.

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹  says, “I will restore the people of Judah to their land and to their towns. When I do, they will again say ²  of Jerusalem, ³  ‘May the Lord bless you, you holy mountain, the place where righteousness dwells.’ ⁴