So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves ¹  before the Lord.” ² 

But if they had stood in my inner circle, ¹  they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power ¹  and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day – we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

They had dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to be used for repairs on the Lord’s temple.

But even if it were ¹  true that I have erred, ²  my error ³  remains solely my concern!

The wealth that he consumed ¹  he vomits up, God will make him throw it out ²  of his stomach.

Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, ¹  or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

I concluded, ¹  “Surely in vain I have kept my motives ²  pure and maintained a pure lifestyle. ³ 

For you give them splendor and strength. ¹  By your favor we are victorious. ² 

Such ¹  are the ways ²  of all who gain profit unjustly; ³  it ⁴  takes away the life ⁵  of those who obtain it! ⁶ 

For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

Can spoils be taken from a warrior, or captives be rescued from a conqueror? ¹ 

I granted ¹  you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life? ¹ 

But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

And which of you by worrying ¹  can add an hour to his life? ² 

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed. ¹ 

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt. ¹ 

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble ¹  for this people, and you have certainly not rescued ²  them!” ³ 

Once he had removed Amasa ¹  from the path, everyone followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.