I fed you milk, ¹  not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

as it is written: “The one who gathered ¹  much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” ² 

in hard work and toil, ¹  through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. ² 

Are you so foolish? Although you began ¹  with ²  the Spirit, are you now trying to finish ³  by human effort? ⁴ 

After the king had consulted with his advisers, ¹  he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, ²  “It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? ¹  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ² 

He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ¹ 

Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! ¹  His appetite ²  is as big as Sheol’s; ³  like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers ⁴  all the nations; he seizes ⁵  all peoples.

He ¹  did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, ²  not even a foot of ground, ³  yet God ⁴  promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, ⁵  even though Abraham ⁶  as yet had no child.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared ¹  a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ² 

When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, ¹  there were ²  twins in her womb.

I will walk in hostile rage against you ¹  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. ¹ 

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

The woman did conceive, and at the specified time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”