When they had stretched him out for the lash, ¹  Paul said to the centurion ²  standing nearby, “Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen ³  without a proper trial?” ⁴ 

After two years ¹  had passed, Porcius Festus ²  succeeded Felix, ³  and because he wanted to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison. ⁴ 

“You should fear me!” says the Lord. “You should tremble in awe before me! ¹  I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.” ² 

so he imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard in the same facility where Joseph was confined.

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are bound to die! ¹  We perish, we all perish!

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

The men said to her, “We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met: ¹ 

The Lord says this about Jezebel, ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the outer wall ¹  of Jezreel.’

They solemnly agreed ¹  to seek the Lord God of their ancestors ²  with their whole heart and being.

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

He marks out the horizon ¹  on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

Enemies seek to destroy my life, ¹  but they will descend into the depths of the earth. ² 

You set up all the boundaries ¹  of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter. ² 

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again. ¹ 

The ropes of the wicked tighten around ¹  me, but I do not forget your law.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone ¹  which was put in place by your ancestors. ² 

I will make you pass under ¹  the shepherd’s staff, ²  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him’ –

Although I trained and strengthened them, ¹  they plot evil against me!