In the evening he brought his daughter Leah ¹  to Jacob, ²  and Jacob ³  had marital relations with her. ⁴ 

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

¹ Amalek came ²  and attacked ³  Israel in Rephidim.

When Saul ¹  had finished prophesying, he went to the high place.

He ordered flies to come; ¹  gnats invaded their whole territory.

He ordered locusts to come, ¹  innumerable grasshoppers.

They asked for food, ¹  and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky. ² 

The righteous person is delivered ¹  out of trouble, and the wicked turns up in his stead. ² 

So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. ¹  Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s. ² 

“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 

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed. ¹ 

Saul proceeded to the city ¹  of Amalek, where he set an ambush ²  in the wadi. ³ 

So Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

He went in by himself and closed the door. ¹  Then he prayed to the Lord.

So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood in the doorway of Elisha’s house.

He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.

He entered Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

So the king and Haman came to dine ¹  with Queen Esther.

I have no ease, ¹  I have no quietness; I cannot rest; ²  turmoil has come upon me.” ³