Discovery Box| (0.25) | Neh 2:8 |
| and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, 1 so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall 2 and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, 3 for the good hand of my God was on me. |
| (0.25) | Est 5:14 |
| Haman’s 1 wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows seventy-five feet 2 high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.” 3 It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built. |
| (0.25) | Jer 2:6 |
| They did not ask: ‘Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, 1 through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’ 2 |
| (0.25) | Amo 6:10 |
| When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, 1 pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” 2 |
| (0.25) | Mal 3:7 |
| From the days of your ancestors you have ignored 1 my commandments 2 and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’ |
| (0.24) | Gen 4:6 |
| Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast? |
| (0.24) | Gen 24:17 |
| Abraham’s servant 1 ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.” |
| (0.24) | Gen 26:16 |
| Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, 1 for you have become much more powerful 2 than we are.” |
| (0.24) | Gen 29:5 |
| So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, the grandson 1 of Nahor?” “We know him,” 2 they said. |
| (0.24) | Exo 4:2 |
| The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” 1 |
| (0.24) | Exo 6:27 |
| They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron. |
| (0.24) | Exo 12:32 |
| Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.” 1 |
| (0.24) | Exo 16:28 |
| So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse 1 to obey my commandments and my instructions? |
| (0.24) | Exo 34:31 |
| But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them. |
| (0.24) | Jos 14:13 |
| Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. 1 |
| (0.24) | Jdg 11:5 |
| When the Ammonites attacked, 1 the leaders 2 of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back 3 from the land of Tob. |
| (0.24) | Jdg 20:27 |
| The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days; |
| (0.24) | Rut 4:2 |
| Boaz chose ten of the village leaders 1 and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down. |
| (0.24) | 1Sa 10:2 |
| When you leave me today, you will find two men near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah on Benjamin’s border. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you have gone looking for have been found. Your father is no longer concerned about the donkeys but has become anxious about you two! 1 He is asking, “What should I do about my son?”’ |
| (0.24) | 1Sa 20:32 |
| Jonathan responded to his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” |
