For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain. ¹ 

Nineveh was like a pool ¹  of water ²  throughout her days, ³  but now ⁴  her people ⁵  are running away; ⁶  she cries out: ⁷  “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back. ⁸ 

This very day, standing in Nob, they shake their fist at Daughter Zion’s mountain ¹  – at the hill of Jerusalem.

The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing ¹  at a spot ²  some distance away.

Then Joab blew the trumpet ¹  and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.

Calamity is ¹  hungry for him, ²  and misfortune is ready at his side. ³ 

Then Joab blew the ram’s horn and all the people stopped in their tracks. ¹  They stopped chasing Israel and ceased fighting. ² 

So the work on the temple of God in Jerusalem came to a halt. It remained halted until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia. ¹ 

over the Ephraim Gate, the Jeshanah Gate, ¹  the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate. They stopped ²  at the Gate of the Guard.

They do not jostle one another; ¹  each of them marches straight ahead. ²  They burst through ³  the city defenses ⁴  and do not break ranks.

The sun rose ¹  over him as he crossed over Penuel, ²  but ³  he was limping because of his hip.

So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood in the doorway of Elisha’s house.

when I said, ‘To here you may come ¹  and no farther, ²  here your proud waves will be confined’? ³ 

In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; ¹  it cannot stand still ²  when the trumpet is blown.

The happy sound ¹  of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. ¹ 

So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. ¹  When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? ¹  If the Lord is the true God, ²  then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!” But the people did not say a word.

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa ¹  stopped, the man ²  pulled him ³  away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay ¹  right there and not go up to them.