This mystery is great – but I am actually ¹  speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

Don’t worry ¹  about your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’”

The king longed ¹  to go to Absalom, for he had since been consoled over the death of Amnon. ² 

I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement. ¹ 

For he will order his angels ¹  to protect you in all you do. ² 

The Lord decided not to do this. ¹  “It will not happen,” the Lord said.

The Lord decided not to do this. ¹  The sovereign Lord said, “This will not happen either.”

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, ¹  he runs away. ² 

Apart from other things, ¹  there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern ²  for all the churches.

Concerning this salvation, ¹  the prophets ²  who predicted the grace that would come to you ³  searched and investigated carefully.

These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. ¹ 

The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ¹  in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

The Lord spoke about the Ammonites. ¹  “Do you think there are not any people of the nation of Israel remaining? Do you think there are not any of them remaining to reinherit their land? Is that why you people who worship the god Milcom ²  have taken possession of the territory of Gad and live in his cities? ³ 

“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.

The vision ¹  that Obadiah ²  saw. ³  The Lord God ⁴  says this concerning ⁵  Edom: ⁶ We have heard a report from the Lord. An envoy was sent among the nations, saying, ⁷  “Arise! Let us make war against Edom!” ⁸ 

and he is divided. An unmarried woman ¹  or a virgin ²  is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, ¹  and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. ¹  But he did not obey ²  the Lord’s command.