He also said to them, “A lamp ¹  isn’t brought to be put under a basket ²  or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

“No one lights ¹  a lamp ²  and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light. ³ 

So ¹  the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, ²  you will begin to move to the least important ³  place.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

revealing ¹  that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, ²  written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets ³  but on tablets of human hearts.

He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

And he set the bread in order on it ¹  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

Their territory started at Aroer ¹  (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

Heshbon and all its surrounding cities on the plain, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will be empty.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.

All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; ¹  they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

This is what she wrote: ¹  “Observe a time of fasting and seat Naboth in front of the people.

They spent three days feasting ¹  there with David, for their relatives had given them provisions.

For my sighing comes in place of ¹  my food, ²  and my groanings ³  flow forth like water. ⁴ 

“Therefore, ¹  I will not refrain my mouth; ²  I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain ³  in the bitterness of my soul.

If his children increase – it is for the sword! ¹  His offspring never have enough to eat. ² 

but from my youth I raised the orphan ¹  like a father, and from my mother’s womb ²  I guided the widow! ³