For ¹  a period of about forty years he put up with ²  them in the wilderness. ³ 

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger ¹  that threatened to destroy you. But he ²  listened to me this time as well.

Israel’s power continued to overwhelm ¹  King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with ²  him. ³ 

The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

There was no one to lead her among all the children she bore; there was no one to take her by the hand among all the children she raised.

Then ¹  John testified, ²  “I saw the Spirit descending like a dove ³  from heaven, ⁴  and it remained on him. ⁵ 

And God, who knows the heart, ¹  has testified ²  to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, ³ 

The mother who had seven children ¹  will grow faint. All the breath will go out of her. ²  Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life. It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day. ³  She will suffer shame and humiliation. ⁴  I will cause any of them who are still left alive to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,” ⁵  says the Lord.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes ¹  according to their clans.

When the sheep mated ¹  in front of the branches, they ²  gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Then ten soldiers who were Joab’s armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

The descendants of Levi carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, just as Moses had ordered according to the divine command.

On the sealed documents were the following names: ¹  Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

“Why did I not ²  die ³  at birth, ⁴  and why did I not expire as ⁵  I came out of the womb?

“As soon as the ear heard these things, ¹  it blessed me, ²  and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

Can anyone catch it by its eyes, ¹  or pierce its nose with a snare? ² 

Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

The Lord speaks; ¹  many, many women spread the good news. ² 

O ¹  my son, O son of my womb, O son ²  of my vows,

So God sent ¹  a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.