and I am glad ¹  for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. ²  But let us go to him.”

It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate. ¹ 

And against whom was God ¹  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ² 

Then Jacob woke up ¹  and thought, ²  “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed. ¹ 

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; ¹  there was no water in it.)

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. ¹ 

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel’s example. ¹ 

There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

but instead sought the God of his ancestors ¹  and obeyed ²  his commands, unlike the Israelites. ³ 

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King’s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

Or why ¹  was ²  I not buried ³  like a stillborn infant, ⁴  like infants ⁵  who have never seen the light? ⁶ 

but from my youth I raised the orphan ¹  like a father, and from my mother’s womb ²  I guided the widow! ³ 

He remembered ¹  that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return. ² 

They quickly forgot what he had done; ¹  they did not wait for his instructions. ² 

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

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