Here I am, standing by the spring, ¹  and the daughters of the people ²  who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

On the next day ¹  Moses sat to judge ²  the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of ¹  the Meeting Tent and the whole congregation presented them and stood before the Lord.

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions ¹  of the Lord and did not journey.

Gilead stayed put ¹  beyond the Jordan River. As for Dan – why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards? ²  Asher remained ³  on the seacoast, he stayed ⁴  by his harbors. ⁵ 

So the people came to Bethel ¹  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ² 

He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ¹  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ² 

Saul, his son Jonathan, and the army that remained with them stayed in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped in Micmash. ¹ 

Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, ¹  and he became his armor bearer.

Jonathan called out to the servant, “Hurry! Go faster! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s servant retrieved the arrow and came back to his master.

The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near ¹  Jeshimon?”

He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ¹  and lock the door behind her!”

The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her. ¹ 

So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters. ¹  (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ¹ 

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ¹ 

These were the ones who served the king, besides those whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege? ¹