(The Emites ¹  used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

They agreed ¹  to make large seagoing merchant ships; ²  they built the ships in Ezion Geber.

Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly; ¹  I will praise you before a large crowd of people! ² 

In your large assemblies praise God, the Lord, in the assemblies of Israel! ¹ 

He blessed ¹  them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. ² 

When ¹  I cried out for help, you answered me. You made me bold and energized me. ² 

A king’s glory is ¹  the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects ²  is the ruin ³  of a ruler.

Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; ¹  its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings. ² 

They are like lusty, well-fed ¹  stallions. Each of them lusts after ²  his neighbor’s wife.

‘These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.

Jesus ¹  went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

We did this ¹  as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent ¹  as they perform their duties.

I have come down ¹  to deliver them ²  from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, ³  to a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁴  to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁵ 

What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ¹  by describing people who are more numerous ²  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ³  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ⁴  Anakites ⁵  there.”

When they were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire and had a dagger in its sheath belted to his waist. When he advanced, it fell out. ¹ 

The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser ¹  from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, ²  along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went ³  and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ⁴ 

Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions began arriving in the Lord’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the Lord has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”

Hezekiah ¹  energetically rebuilt ²  every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, ³  and fortified the terrace of the City of David. ⁴  He made many weapons and shields.