Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; ¹  in all they had twelve cities and their towns. ² 

Merari’s descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹ 

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with ¹  Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers, ² 

After twelve months, he happened to be walking around on the battlements ¹  of the royal palace of Babylon.

When ¹  Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, ¹  he took the twelve ²  aside privately and said to them on the way,

Then ¹  Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands. ² 

He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who dips his hand ¹  with me into the bowl. ² 

When ¹  morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: ² 

After ¹  Jesus ²  called ³  the twelve ⁴  together, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure ⁵  diseases,

They all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over ¹  was picked up – twelve baskets of broken pieces.

So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?” ¹ 

Jesus replied, ¹  “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” ² 

As you can verify ¹  for yourself, not more than twelve days ago ²  I went up to Jerusalem ³  to worship.

From James, ¹  a slave ²  of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. ³  Greetings!

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes ¹  according to their clans.

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with ¹  Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

These ¹  are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He gave each of them an appropriate blessing. ²