and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards,

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, ¹  killed another, and stoned another.

But ¹  those tenants ²  seized his slave, ³  beat him, ⁴  and sent him away empty-handed. ⁵ 

Mourn over the field, ¹  over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, ¹  in troubles, ²  in sleepless nights, in hunger,

I grind them as fine windblown dust; ¹  I beat them underfoot ²  like clay ³  in the streets.

Now ¹  the men who were holding Jesus ²  under guard began to mock him and beat him.

He ¹  immediately took ²  soldiers and centurions ³  and ran down to the crowd. ⁴  When they saw ⁵  the commanding officer ⁶  and the soldiers, they stopped beating ⁷  Paul.

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay ¹  in the streets.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

The horses’ ¹  hooves pounded the ground; ²  the stallions galloped madly. ³ 

Beat your plowshares ¹  into swords, and your pruning hooks ²  into spears! ³  Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!’ ⁴ 

Nineveh ¹  is taken into exile ²  and is led away; ³  her slave girls moan ⁴  like doves ⁵  while they beat ⁶  their breasts. ⁷ 

So ¹  he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed. ² 

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, ¹  and began to beat ²  him in front of the judgment seat. ³  Yet none of these things were of any concern ⁴  to Gallio.

I replied, ¹  ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues ²  who believed in you.

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; ¹  the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

The rain fell, the flood ¹  came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!” ¹