a lizard ¹  you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king. ² 

While ¹  the Pharisees ²  were assembled, Jesus asked them a question: ³ 

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too. ¹ 

If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹  a married woman ²  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ³  evil from Israel.

They speak sinful words. ¹  So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger, by the battle cry of your God. ¹ 

Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. ¹  Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have?

So Jesus said to them, “Children, you don’t have any fish, ¹  do you?” ²  They replied, ³  “No.”

But when her owners ¹  saw their hope of profit ²  was gone, they seized ³  Paul and Silas and dragged ⁴  them into the marketplace before the authorities.

When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered ¹  him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in ²  fire, and they ³  melted away from his hands.

He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. ¹  They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, ²  “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. ³ 

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community.

The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men ¹  had gathered ²  was 675,000 sheep,

Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them. ¹ 

They met ¹  Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

He reached down from above and grabbed me; ¹  he pulled me from the surging water. ² 

I chase my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

The battle was thick ¹  around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him. ² 

A trap ¹  seizes him by the heel; a snare ²  grips him.