For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

By professing it, some have strayed from the faith. ¹  Grace be with you all. ² 

As I remember your tears, I long to see you, ¹  so that I may be filled with joy.

Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

For there are many ¹  rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections, ² 

So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

On this topic we have much to say ¹  and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish ²  in hearing.

And the others ¹  who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them ²  from continuing in office, ³ 

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, ¹  bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.

I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with ¹  pen and ink. ² 

Into his right hand ¹  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ²  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ³  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

“‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²  and the width three and one-third miles. ³  This entire area will be holy. ⁴ 

You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ¹ 

But the land could ¹  not support them while they were living side by side. ²  Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live ³  alongside one another.

I was consumed by scorching heat ¹  during the day and by piercing cold ²  at night, and I went without sleep. ³ 

Furthermore, he must not marry many ¹  wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, ¹  in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. ¹  David brought everything back.

Ahab’s entire family will die. I ¹  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ² 

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ¹  at Riblah in the territory ²  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.