So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. ¹  He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for livestock.

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah.

Certainly my master is aware of what I did ¹  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

So the Lord announced through ¹  his servants the prophets:

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans ¹  –

Rise up, Lord! ¹  Don’t let men be defiant! ²  May the nations be judged in your presence!

For they suffer no pain; ¹  their bodies ²  are strong and well-fed. ³ 

Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. ¹ 

when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong, ¹ 

You are a garden spring, ¹  a well ²  of fresh water ³  flowing down from Lebanon.

Even the soldiers ¹  from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel. ² 

So the warden ¹  agreed to their proposal ²  and tested them for ten ³  days.

I cared ¹  for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was. ² 

Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Not counting children and women, ¹  there were four thousand men who ate. ² 

And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

For ¹  a period of about forty years he put up with ²  them in the wilderness. ³ 

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, ¹  what good is it?

They worshiped ¹  the disgusting idols ²  in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. ³ 

Is my ¹  complaint against a man? ²  If so, ³  why should I not be impatient? ⁴