Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, ¹  if he has accidentally killed another ²  without hating him at the time of the accident. ³ 

He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war. ¹ 

Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces ¹  all of these metals, ²  so it will break in pieces and crush the others. ³ 

¹ In the third year ²  of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously. ³ 

yes, while I was still praying, ¹  the man Gabriel, whom I had seen previously ²  in a vision, was approaching me in my state of extreme weariness, ³  around the time of the evening offering.

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

Thus ¹  we urged ²  Titus that, just as he had previously begun this work, ³  so also he should complete this act of kindness ⁴  for you.

But there was not a man among these who had been ¹  among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told ¹  Samuel:

he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader in earlier times, and the Lord was with him.

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die. ¹ 

“Suppose such a man has ¹  a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things ²  mentioned previously

I will avenge ¹  their blood which I had not previously acquitted. It is the Lord who dwells in Zion!

“Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Pay close attention to these things also. ¹ 

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, ¹  for prior to this they had been enemies. ² 

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ¹ 

On the one hand a former command is set aside ¹  because it is weak and useless, ² 

But you must require ¹  of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. ²  Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. ³  That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’

Look, you will summon nations ¹  you did not previously know; nations ²  that did not previously know you will run to you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, ³  for he bestows honor on you.