They broke through the city walls, and all the soldiers tried to escape. They left the city during the night. They went through the gate between the two walls that is near the king’s garden. ¹  (The Babylonians had the city surrounded.) Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. ² 

Jonah left the city and sat down east ¹  of it. ²  He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city. ³ 

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem ¹  to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away. ² 

He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined ¹  the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. ²  He tore down the high place of the goat idols ³  situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ¹  of the king’s advisers ²  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ³  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

From the city he took an official who was in charge of the soldiers, seven of the king’s advisers who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹  for military service, and sixty citizens who were discovered in the middle of the city.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah. ¹ 

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people ¹  had started ²  building.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ¹  the city.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain ¹  and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city. ¹ 

He made the camels kneel down by the well ¹  outside the city. It was evening, ²  the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Here I am, standing by the spring, ¹  and the daughters of the people ²  who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

So he named it Shibah; ¹  that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba ²  to this day.

He called that place Bethel, ¹  although the former name of the town was Luz.

Jacob’s sons killed them ¹  and looted the city because their sister had been violated. ² 

Joseph ¹  made all the people slaves ²  from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

Moreover, ¹  the open field areas of their cities ²  must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

I will lay your cities waste ¹  and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ¹  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.