¹ When ²  Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality ³  with the daughters of Moab.

Saul was [thirty] ¹  years old when he began to reign; he ruled over Israel for [forty] ²  years.

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel’s territory. ¹  Hazael attacked their eastern border. ² 

He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. ¹ 

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps ¹  and finished in the seventh month.

Then the local people ¹  began to discourage ²  the people of Judah and to dishearten them from building.

So I began to despair ¹  about all the fruit of ²  my labor ³  for which I worked so hard ⁴  on earth. ⁵ 

The Lord ¹  began to speak to him ²  in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah.

While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating ¹  them,

From that time Jesus began to preach this message: ¹  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then ¹  she got up and began to serve them.

he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep.” And they began making fun of him. ¹ 

So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: ¹  “God forbid, ²  Lord! This must not happen to you!”

As ¹  he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents ²  was brought to him.

In the wilderness ¹  John the baptizer ²  began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. ³ 

Then ¹  they went to Capernaum. ²  When the Sabbath came, ³  Jesus ⁴  went into the synagogue ⁵  and began to teach.

So ¹  the Pharisees ²  went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, ³  as to how they could assassinate ⁴  him.

Then the Pharisees ¹  came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for ²  a sign from heaven ³  to test him.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”