“Certainly when ¹  I punish Israel for their ²  covenant transgressions, ³  I will destroy ⁴  Bethel’s ⁵  altars. The horns ⁶  of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

A ¹  very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have ¹  two feet and be thrown into hell. ² 

Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave, ¹  cutting off his right ear. ²  (Now the slave’s name was Malchus.) ³ 

So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”

Above the foundation ¹  the best ²  stones, chiseled to the right size, ³  were used along with cedar.

For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ¹  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ² 

Call to mind now: ¹  Who, ²  being innocent, ever perished? ³  And where were upright people ⁴  ever destroyed? ⁵ 

For what is his interest ¹  in his home after his death, ²  when the number of his months has been broken off? ³ 

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! ¹  See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Samaria and its king will be carried off ¹  like a twig ²  on the surface of the waters.

I will remove the sorcery ¹  that you practice, ²  and you will no longer have omen readers living among you. ³ 

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, ¹  and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. ²  I will abhor you. ³ 

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land. ¹ 

You are children ¹  of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald ²  for the sake of the dead.

Suppose he goes with someone else ¹  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ²  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ³  from the handle and strikes ⁴  his fellow worker ⁵  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁶  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁷