When Joshua was very old, ¹  the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, ¹  and the Lord had blessed him ²  in everything.

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹ 

The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹ 

King David was very old; ¹  even when they covered him with blankets, ²  he could not get warm.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ² 

Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

In those days, as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa ¹  the citadel, ² 

He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths.

Yet even then ¹  I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

“When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’ ¹ 

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant ¹  of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three whole weeks. ¹ 

Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

(4:1) ¹  For look! In those ²  days and at that time I will return the exiles ³  to Judah and Jerusalem. ⁴ 

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants ¹  the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days ²  that I would bring you against them?

God blessed them ¹  and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” ² 

¹ In those days, ²  when ³  Moses had grown up, he went out to his people ⁴  and observed ⁵  their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking ⁶  a Hebrew man, one of his own people. ⁷