They are fresh ¹  every morning; your faithfulness is abundant! ² 

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land ¹  of the Philistines for seven months, ² 

Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, ¹  like new wineskins ²  ready to burst!

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. ¹ 

The length of time ¹  that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year ²  and four months.

They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

For seven months Israel ¹  will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, ¹  when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus – for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women –

After three months Judah was told, ¹  “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, ²  and as a result she has become pregnant.” ³  Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors ¹  had not known about.

These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”

God chose new leaders, ¹  then fighters appeared in the city gates; ²  but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, ³  among forty military units ⁴  in Israel.

He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave ¹  for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills. ² 

He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, ¹  I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, ¹  Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) ²  But he tore the ropes ³  from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

However, she ¹  got angry at him ²  and went home ³  to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah for seven and a half years. ¹ 

In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem ¹  he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.