40	GEN 2:9	The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
224	GEN 9:18	The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)
270	GEN 11:3	Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
303	GEN 12:4	So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)
305	GEN 12:6	Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)
321	GEN 13:2	(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
326	GEN 13:7	So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)
332	GEN 13:13	(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)
350	GEN 14:13	A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)
355	GEN 14:18	Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.)
396	GEN 16:14	That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
398	GEN 16:16	(Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)
436	GEN 18:11	Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)
441	GEN 18:16	When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)
480	GEN 19:22	Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
519	GEN 21:5	(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)
571	GEN 22:23	(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
582	GEN 23:10	(Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate of his city –
621	GEN 24:29	(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.
689	GEN 25:30	So Esau said to Jacob, “Feed me some of the red stuff – yes, this red stuff – because I’m starving!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
813	GEN 29:17	Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)
820	GEN 29:24	(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)
825	GEN 29:29	(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)
906	GEN 31:32	Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.” (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
908	GEN 31:34	(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
1000	GEN 34:19	The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father’s household.)
1020	GEN 35:8	(Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named Oak of Weeping.)
1106	GEN 37:22	Reuben continued, “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)
1108	GEN 37:24	Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)
1134	GEN 38:14	So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah. (She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)
1276	GEN 42:23	(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)
1323	GEN 43:32	They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting to do so.)
1413	GEN 46:26	All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)
1628	EXO 4:26	So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)
1672	EXO 6:16	Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.)
1674	EXO 6:18	The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. (The length of Kohath’s life was 133 years.)
1676	EXO 6:20	Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)
1775	EXO 9:32	But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)
1810	EXO 11:3	(Now the Lord granted the people favor with the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people.)
1944	EXO 15:23	Then they came to Marah, but they were not able to drink the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. (That is why its name was Marah.)
1984	EXO 16:36	(Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.)
3458	LEV 24:11	The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
4034	NUM 11:9	And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)
4051	NUM 11:26	But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.
4063	NUM 12:3	(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)
4098	NUM 13:22	When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
4134	NUM 14:25	(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.”
4952	DEU 2:12	Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.)
4963	DEU 2:23	As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete destroyed them and settled down in their place.)
4988	DEU 3:11	Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)
4991	DEU 3:14	Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
5055	DEU 4:49	including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)
5060	DEU 5:5	(I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:
5698	DEU 29:16	You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
5877	JOS 2:6	(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)
5886	JOS 2:15	Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window. (Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)
6003	JOS 7:25	Joshua said, “Why have you brought disaster on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)
6066	JOS 9:27	and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
6093	JOS 10:27	At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)
6168	JOS 13:12	the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was one of the few remaining Rephaites.) Moses defeated them and took their lands.
6217	JOS 15:13	Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.)
6219	JOS 15:15	From there he attacked the people of Debir. (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)
6285	JOS 17:8	(The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)
6395	JOS 21:12	(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)
6435	JOS 22:7	(Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he rewarded them,
6521	JDG 1:10	The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
6522	JDG 1:11	From there they attacked the people of Debir. (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)
6587	JDG 3:17	He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
6745	JDG 8:24	Gideon continued, “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
6902	JDG 13:16	The Lord’s messenger said to Manoah, “If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, you should offer it.” (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the Lord’s messenger.)
6963	JDG 16:12	So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.
7007	JDG 18:12	They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. It is west of Kiriath Jearim.)
7042	JDG 19:16	But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)
7131	RUT 1:2	(Now the man’s name was Elimelech, his wife was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were of the clan of Ephrath from Bethlehem in Judah.) They entered the region of Moab and settled there.
7133	RUT 1:4	So her sons married Moabite women. (One was named Orpah and the other Ruth.) And they continued to live there about ten years.
7151	RUT 1:22	So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. (Now they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)
7199	RUT 4:7	(Now this used to be the customary way to finalize a transaction involving redemption in Israel: A man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party. This was a legally binding act in Israel.)
7223	1SA 1:9	On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
7326	1SA 5:5	(For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.)
7402	1SA 9:9	(Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)
7703	1SA 18:25	Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
7771	1SA 20:39	(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.)
7782	1SA 21:8	(One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)
7908	1SA 25:44	(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)
7939	1SA 27:6	So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)
7941	1SA 27:8	Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)
8043	2SA 1:18	(He gave instructions that the people of Judah should be taught “The Bow.” Indeed, it is written down in the Book of Yashar.)
8070	2SA 2:18	The three sons of Zeruiah were there – Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. (Now Asahel was as quick on his feet as one of the gazelles in the field.)
8110	2SA 3:26	Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.)
8126	2SA 4:3	for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)
8240	2SA 9:10	You will cultivate the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master’s grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
8266	2SA 11:4	David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he had sexual relations with her. (Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.
8338	2SA 13:18	(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.
8477	2SA 17:25	Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)
8585	2SA 21:2	So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
8595	2SA 21:12	he went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines publicly exposed their corpses after they had killed Saul at Gilboa.)
8711	2SA 24:16	When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
8735	1KI 1:15	So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters. (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)
8858	1KI 4:11	Ben-Abinadab was in charge of Naphath Dor. (He was married to Solomon’s daughter Taphath.)
8862	1KI 4:15	Ahimaaz was in charge of Naphtali. (He married Solomon’s daughter Basemath.)