When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. ¹ 

The Gershonites included Ladan and Shimei.

When he brought me there, I saw ¹  a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

“Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets ¹  and your sons and daughters will die violently. ²  Your land will be given to others ³  and you will die in a foreign ⁴  land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile ⁵  away from its land.’”

He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” ¹  It measured 15 feet ²  from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet ³  high. Its circumference was 45 feet. ⁴ 

This is the record ¹  of the family line ²  of Adam. When God created humankind, ³  he made them ⁴  in the likeness of God.

They set on it ¹  four rows of stones: a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row;

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.

There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three. ¹ 

The Lord brought ¹  against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.

the descendants of Pahath-Moab (from the line ¹  of Jeshua and ²  Joab): 2,812;

the descendants of Pahath-Moab (from the line ¹  of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;

The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodaviah), 74.

I will give him an eternal dynasty, ¹  and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. ² 

His dynasty will last forever. ¹  His throne will endure before me, like the sun, ² 

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve. ¹ 

But ¹  indeed, ²  some are last ³  who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ¹  of David ²  and comes from Bethlehem, ³  the village where David lived?” ⁴ 

Abijah launched the attack with 400,000 well-trained warriors, ¹  while Jeroboam deployed against him 800,000 well-trained warriors. ²