Quotes about First

On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them:

The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.

the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.

Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”

Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

On that day David first committed to Asaph and his brothers this song of thanksgiving to the LORD: