¹ But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

²³ However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

²⁹ But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

² Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.

³ I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

¹ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,

² Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;

¹² Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, [Long] live the king.

² Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.