The sun had just risen ¹  over the land as Lot reached Zoar. ² 

Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter ¹  his son.

He reached down from above and grabbed me; ¹  he pulled me from the surging water. ² 

He said, “Lift it out.” So he reached out his hand and grabbed it.

Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, ¹  and its shoots the Euphrates River. ² 

The watery deep covered it ¹  like a garment; the waters reached ²  above the mountains. ³ 

So the men inside ¹  reached out ²  and pulled Lot back into the house ³  as they shut the door.

Now Joseph’s brothers ¹  saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him ¹  of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

They did not see ¹  what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah and his fame reached ¹  the border of Egypt, for he grew in power.

He reached down ¹  from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water. ² 

In the fourth generation ¹  your descendants ²  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ³ 

When Joseph reached Shechem, ¹  a man found him wandering ²  in the field, so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ¹  belly.

When he reached Seirah, ¹  he blew a trumpet ²  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead. ³ 

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ¹  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ²  the ark of God, ³  because the oxen stumbled.

While they were still on their way, the following report reached David: “Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”

When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

Then King David reached ¹  Bahurim. There a man from Saul’s extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached. ²