They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly ¹  good land.

The fifty members of the prophetic guild went and stood opposite them at a distance, while Elijah and Elisha ¹  stood by the Jordan.

Some of the prophets ¹  said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you ²  is too cramped ³  for us.

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of Israelites ¹  was as follows: ² 

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of Israelite men ¹  was as follows:

For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, ¹  that you shook your head in contempt ²  every time you talked about them? ³ 

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army ¹  against them and subject them ²  to terror and plunder.

That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses. ¹ 

“‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them. ¹ 

In those days ¹  Peter stood up among the believers ²  (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

When they were released, Peter and John ¹  went to their fellow believers ²  and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Then Paul and his companions put out to sea ¹  from Paphos ²  and came to Perga ³  in Pamphylia, ⁴  but John ⁵  left them and returned to Jerusalem. ⁶ 

But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city ¹  of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Leah said, “How fortunate!” ¹  So she named him Gad. ² 

When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company. ¹ 

The entire group numbered 42,360, ¹ 

The entire group numbered 42,360,

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, ¹ 

They were banished from the community ¹  – people ²  shouted at them like they would shout at thieves ³  –