But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, ¹  and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

So that ¹  your confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today ²  – even you.

Do not envy evil people, ¹  do not desire ²  to be with them;

Cush was the father of ¹  Nimrod; he began to be a valiant warrior on the earth.

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. ¹  I am the Lord.”

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who established himself as a mighty warrior on earth. ¹ 

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord. ¹ 

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again ¹  what has occurred ²  in the past. ³ 

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

(5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, ¹  seemingly insignificant ²  among the clans of Judah – from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, ³  one whose origins ⁴  are in the distant past. ⁵ 

I will confirm ¹  my covenant as a perpetual ²  covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ³ 

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand ¹  that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

Even though she continued to speak ¹  to Joseph day after day, he did not respond ²  to her invitation to have sex with her. ³ 

They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod.

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God. ¹ 

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”