“I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. ¹  I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses ²  rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking!

The four victorious kings ¹  took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.”

When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

Once he had removed Amasa ¹  from the path, everyone followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bicri.

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. ¹  They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem. ² 

He catches ¹  the wise in their own craftiness, ²  and the counsel of the cunning ³  is brought to a quick end. ⁴ 

Why ¹  has your heart carried you away, ²  and why do your eyes flash, ³ 

You ¹  prevail over ²  all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you. ³ 

You led us into a trap; ¹  you caused us to suffer. ² 

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, ¹  but the faithless will be captured ²  by their own desires. ³ 

A relative ¹  offended ²  is harder to reach than ³  a strong city, and disputes are like the barred gates ⁴  of a fortified citadel. ⁵ 

If you do not obey me, ¹  then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. ²  And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.’”

However, King Jehoiakim sent some men to Egypt, including Elnathan son of Achbor, ¹ 

The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah ¹  about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. ² 

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified. ¹ 

The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat. ¹ 

The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ¹ 

When Abram heard that his nephew ¹  had been taken captive, he mobilized ²  his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders ³  as far as Dan. ⁴ 

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed ¹  king of all Israel, all the Philistines marched up to confront him. ²  When David heard about it, he marched out against ³  them.