All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron saying, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ¹ 

Absalom had ¹  three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman. ² 

King David was very old; ¹  even when they covered him with blankets, ²  he could not get warm.

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ¹ 

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ¹  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ² 

So Ahab summoned Obadiah, who supervised the palace. (Now Obadiah was a very loyal follower of the Lord. ¹ 

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its surrounding settlements, and in the pasturelands of Sharon to their very borders. ¹ 

But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ¹ 

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ¹  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ² 

The Lord made his kingdom secure; ¹  all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he became very wealthy and greatly respected. ² 

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

For the very thing I dreaded ¹  has happened ²  to me, and what I feared has come upon me. ³ 

He spares a person’s life from corruption, ¹  his very life from crossing over ²  the river.

Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes – you will see the wicked paid back. ¹ 

He blessed ¹  them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. ² 

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

When he sees chariots, teams of horses, ¹  riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”

In just a very short time ¹  Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest. ² 

Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day ¹  they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

Surely they will be totally consumed ¹  like ²  entangled thorn bushes, ³  like the drink of drunkards, ⁴  like very ⁵  dry stubble.