the descendants of Pahath-Moab (from the line ¹  of Jeshua and ²  Joab): 2,812;

the descendants of Pahath-Moab (from the line ¹  of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;

The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodaviah), 74.

I will give him an eternal dynasty, ¹  and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. ² 

His dynasty will last forever. ¹  His throne will endure before me, like the sun, ² 

Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?

But ¹  indeed, ²  some are last ³  who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

For who dares make light of small beginnings? These seven eyes ¹  will joyfully look on the tin tablet ²  in Zerubbabel’s hand. (These are the eyes of the Lord, which constantly range across the whole earth.)

“This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me. ¹ 

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight ¹  Israel. As the battle spread out, ²  Israel was defeated by ³  the Philistines, who ⁴  killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans. ¹ 

“There will arise in his ¹  place one from her family line ²  who will come against their army and will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and will move against them successfully. ³ 

This is the record ¹  of the family line ²  of Adam. When God created humankind, ³  he made them ⁴  in the likeness of God.

The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they ¹  arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

Saul and the Israelite army ¹  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ²  the Philistines.

He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments ¹  and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. ² 

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

They ¹  charge ²  like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. ³  Each one proceeds on his course; they do not alter ⁴  their path.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ¹  of David ²  and comes from Bethlehem, ³  the village where David lived?” ⁴ 

so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.