Discovery Box| (0.63) | Jdg 19:3 |
| her husband came 1 after her, hoping he could convince her to return. 2 He brought with him his servant 3 and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly. 4 |
| (0.63) | Rut 2:20 |
| Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be rewarded by the Lord because he 1 has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!” 2 Then Naomi said to her, “This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian.” 3 |
| (0.63) | Rut 3:15 |
| Then he said, “Hold out the shawl 1 you are wearing 2 and grip it tightly.” As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds 3 of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he 4 went into town, |
| (0.63) | 1Sa 2:8 |
| He lifts the weak 1 from the dust; he raises 2 the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. 3 The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them. |
| (0.63) | 1Sa 9:6 |
| But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. 1 Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.” 2 |
| (0.63) | 1Sa 9:13 |
| When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for 1 this is the time when you can find him!” |
| (0.63) | 1Sa 17:25 |
| The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? He does so 1 to defy Israel. But the king will make the man who can strike him down very wealthy! He will give him his daughter in marriage, and he will make his father’s house exempt from tax obligations in Israel.” |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 8:2 |
| He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third. 1 The Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute. 2 |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 11:13 |
| Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 17:23 |
| When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 1 of his father. |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 18:33 |
| (19:1) 1 The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, “My son, Absalom! My son, my son, 2 Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!” 3 |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 20:3 |
| Then David went to his palace 1 in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. 2 Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. 3 They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 2:32 |
| May the Lord punish him for the blood he shed; 1 behind my father David’s back he struck down and murdered with the sword two men who were more innocent and morally upright than he 2 – Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 3:1 |
| Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David 1 until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 6:15 |
| He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters 1 of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 12:33 |
| On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) 1 Jeroboam 2 offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. 3 He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 14:21 |
| Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He 1 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, 2 the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 3 His mother was an Ammonite woman 4 named Naamah. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 15:23 |
| The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. 1 Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 2 |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 18:34 |
| Then he said, “Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood.” When they had done so, 1 he said, “Do it again.” So they did it again. Then he said, “Do it a third time.” So they did it a third time. |
| (0.63) | 1Ki 20:39 |
| When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat 1 of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. 2 He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, 3 you will pay with your life or with a talent 4 of silver.’ 5 |
