For if you refuse to release them ¹  and continue holding them, ² 

¹ The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; ²  he refuses to release ³  the people.

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague ¹  all your territory with frogs. ² 

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring ¹  locusts ²  into your territory ³  tomorrow.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

So the princes of Moab departed ¹  and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, ¹  for the Lord has refused to permit me to go ²  with you.”

When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered, “Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”

When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she ¹  said to Ahab, “Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he’s dead.”