That is why he named that place ¹  Beer Sheba, ²  because the two of them swore ³  an oath there.

and showing covenant faithfulness ¹  to a thousand generations ²  of those who love me and keep my commandments.

but I show covenant faithfulness ¹  to the thousands ²  who choose ³  me and keep my commandments.

While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!

He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; ¹  he gave the symbol of his splendor ²  into the hand of the enemy. ³ 

For indeed, what had been glorious now ¹  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ² 

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, ¹  heirs according to the promise.

Behind the door and doorpost you put your symbols. ¹  Indeed, ²  you depart from me ³  and go up and invite them into bed with you. ⁴  You purchase favors from them, ⁵  you love their bed, and gaze longingly ⁶  on their genitals. ⁷ 

and that priest must dip his finger in the blood ¹  and sprinkle ²  some of the blood seven times ³  before the Lord toward ⁴  the front of the veil-canopy. ⁵ 

I will write on the tablets the same words ¹  that were on the first tablets you broke, and you must put them into the ark.”

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today. ¹ 

and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on. ¹ 

When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem ¹  heard the news, they went to the stronghold ²  of the temple of El-Berith. ³ 

So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty. ¹ 

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors ¹  and worshiped instead ²  the gods of the native peoples ³  whom God had destroyed before them.

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, ¹  after the ark was placed there.

Do not those who devise ¹  evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit ²  faithful covenant love. ³ 

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved. ¹ 

But later ¹  they had changed their minds. They had taken back their male and female slaves that they had freed and forced them to be slaves again. ² 

The Lord also has a covenant lawsuit ¹  against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.