When Mordecai learned of the conspiracy, ¹  he informed Queen Esther, ²  and Esther told the king in Mordecai’s behalf. ³ 

For this is what the sovereign master ¹  has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

So I bought the shorts as the Lord had told me to do ¹  and put them on. ² 

The Lord told me to say ¹  to the royal court ²  of Judah, “Listen to what the Lord says,

The Lord told me, ¹  “Make a yoke ²  out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am no longer allowed to go ¹  into the Lord’s temple.

Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people. ¹ 

The king told them, “I have had a dream, ¹  and I ²  am anxious to understand the dream.”

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ¹  and said, “You must ²  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ³  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ⁴ 

And the Lord God ¹  said, “Who told you that you were naked? ²  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” ³ 

So Abram left, ¹  just as the Lord had told him to do, ²  and Lot went with him. (Now ³  Abram was 75 years old ⁴  when he departed from Haran.)

So Sarah became pregnant ¹  and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported. ¹ 

So his mother told him, “Any curse against you will fall on me, ¹  my son! Just obey me! ²  Go and get them for me!”

When Jacob explained ¹  to Rachel that he was a relative of her father ²  and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

I have ¹  the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful ²  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’ ³ 

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, ¹  “but Israel, ²  because you have fought ³  with God and with men and have prevailed.”

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. ¹  Purify yourselves and change your clothes. ² 

They told him, “We both had dreams, ¹  but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them ²  to me.”