Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.

Do not let truth and mercy ¹  leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. ² 

Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

He drove me into captivity ¹  and made me walk ²  in darkness and not light.

He has besieged ¹  and surrounded ²  me with bitter hardship. ³ 

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. ¹ 

When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. ¹  I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

So the men inside ¹  reached out ²  and pulled Lot back into the house ³  as they shut the door.

As Ehud went out into the vestibule, ¹  he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

Indeed, ¹ with your help ²  I can charge ³  against an army; ⁴  by my God’s power ⁵  I can jump over a wall. ⁶ 

He went in by himself and closed the door. ¹  Then he prayed to the Lord.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

If he comes by ¹  and confines ²  you ³  and convenes a court, ⁴  then who can prevent ⁵  him?

In the dark the robber ¹  breaks into houses, ²  but by day they shut themselves in; ³  they do not know the light. ⁴ 

Indeed, ¹  with your help ²  I can charge against ³  an army; ⁴  by my God’s power ⁵  I can jump over a wall. ⁶ 

So the men did as instructed. ¹  They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s ¹  bed. She shut the door behind her and left.

Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked ¹  and besieged Samaria. ² 

The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.