Where the later hands touched the line the Old Testament's parentheses, counted, dated by what they presuppose, laid over Butler's story line

A parenthesis in a text is a hand reaching back. 'The name of that city was called Luz at the first' is written by someone for whom it is Bethel; 'before there reigned any king over the children of Israel' by someone who has seen kings. Count the reaches, sort them by how far forward the hand must stand, and the text's editing shows as strata.

Ross K Nichols, on 1 Samuel 9:9. “The narrator is from a later time. When the narrator says, what was formerly called a seer is now called a prophet, or what we now call a prophet, he's talking to us from the future at this time.”

Related diagrams: Butler's story line From word to throne One line becomes two Ten symbols Edit points

268editorial markers found

23,145verses scanned

6edit points they presuppose

3hands, by which points share a chapter

143need only a hand in the land

63need two kingdoms

71per 1,000 verses in 2 Kings, the densest

What this page is. A count, not a chronology. It never says a year. It says: this verse needs a hand that already knows X, and X is later than the story the verse sits in. Six Xs recur, in order, and those are the edit points. The main figure draws each marker at the story mark it sits in (Butler's seventeen, left to right) and at the edit point it needs (six rows, later is lower). The drop from the line to the row is the reach.

The reach: every marker at its story mark and at the edit point it needs

x: Butler's seventeen marks in order (book order, not years). y: the six edit points, later is lower. A dot is one verse. The grey drop under each mark reaches the latest hand that touched it.

The three bars under the line are the hands. Hand 1 reaches from the Patriarchs to the Division and does most of the work; Hand 2 reaches from Babel to Babylon but touches only a few verses on the way; Hand 3 runs from the Kingdom to the Return. The dot on each bar is where that hand signs off, and each sign-off is one of Butler's three breaks. Read the drops, not the dots. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sit at the fourth mark and are reached by a hand from the fifth stratum ('Ur of the Chaldees'); Sinai is reached from the fifth (Leviticus 26's exile written as past); the Kingdom from the sixth (Persian drams in David's offering, 1 Chronicles 29:7). No mark before the Kingdom is touched only by the hand that could have written it in its own time.

The fourth layer: where the hands point at each other

The hands never name one another. They refer to each other in four habits, and every one of them is a later hand treating an earlier layer as something received.

How to read this panel. Same line, same seventeen marks along the top. Four lanes below it, one per layer, oldest at the top: the Torah layer the hands received, then Hand 1, Hand 2, Hand 3. A verse sits in the lane of the hand that wrote it and under the mark its story belongs to. An arc runs from the verse that points to the verse it points at; because the pointing hand is always the later one, every arc climbs. Green, solid: the later hand copies the earlier text, parenthesis and all, so Chronicles keeps "there it is unto this day" about an ark that was gone. Blue, dashed: the later hand cites the earlier layer as a book, "as it is written in the book of the law of Moses", "the book of the kings of Israel and Judah", "the former prophets". Gold flags are colophons, places where a hand marks the edge of what it received, "the prayers of David are ended", "which the men of Hezekiah copied out"; they point at nothing, so they stand as flags on their own lane. Red: a hand accuses, Jeremiah 8:8 saying the scribes' pen has made the Torah a lie. Hover any arc for the verse and what it shows. The direction never reverses: no earlier hand mentions a later one, which is what makes the hands separable in time at all.

Verse that points	Hand	Habit	Points at	What it shows
2 Chronicles 5:9	H3	copy	1 Kings 8:8 (H1)	'there it is unto this day' about the ark's staves, kept by a hand writing when there was no ark; the copied 'now' is the fossil [RKN:2qxbwubtKi0@56:23]
2 Chronicles 10:19	H3	copy	1 Kings 12:19 (H1)	'Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day', kept with no Israel left to rebel
2 Chronicles 8:8	H3	copy	1 Kings 9:21 (H1)	the Canaanite levy 'unto this day', carried over verbatim
2 Chronicles 21:10	H3	copy	2 Kings 8:22 (H1)	Edom's revolt 'unto this day', carried over verbatim
2 Chronicles 16:11	H3	cite	1 Kings 15:23 (H1)	'the book of the kings of Judah and Israel': Hand 3 names Hand 1's finished work as its source
1 Chronicles 29:29	H3	cite	1 Samuel 9:9 (H1)	'the book of Samuel the seer': Hand 3 cites the Samuel material and keeps the old title 'seer' that Hand 1 had explained away
2 Kings 14:6	H1	cite	Deuteronomy 24:16 (T)	'as it is written in the book of the law of Moses' and then the verse word for word: Hand 1 citing the Torah layer as scripture
Joshua 8:31	H1	cite	Deuteronomy 27:5 (T)	the altar of unhewn stones 'as it is written in the book of the law of Moses'
Nehemiah 13:1	H3	cite	Deuteronomy 23:3 (T)	'they read in the book of Moses' and quote the Ammonite and Moabite rule
Ezra 6:18	H3	cite	Numbers 3 (T)	priests in their divisions 'as it is written in the book of Moses'
Daniel 9:2	H3	cite	Jeremiah 25:11 (H2)	'I Daniel understood by books' the seventy years of Jeremiah: a later hand reading an exile-era prophet as a text
Zechariah 1:4	H3	cite	Jeremiah 25:5 (H2)	'the former prophets' named as a body of writing already old
Proverbs 25:1	H1	colophon	Proverbs 10:1 (T)	'which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out': a copying crew names itself
Psalm 72:20	H1	colophon	its own edge	'the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended': the edge of a received collection, left in place
Jeremiah 51:64	H2	colophon	its own edge	'thus far are the words of Jeremiah', after which chapter 52 is Kings copied in [RKN:3SJAuqmVIcU@1:05:01]
Job 31:40	T	colophon	its own edge	'the words of Job are ended', with eleven chapters still to come
Ecclesiastes 12:9-14	H3	colophon	its own edge	an epilogue speaking about the author in the third person
Jeremiah 8:8	H2	accuse	Deuteronomy 12-26 (T)	'the pen of the scribes is in vain': a prophet of the Babylon generation says the Torah in his hand has been worked over [RKN:NuQ1_CRrA9A@13:35]
Zephaniah 3:4	H2	accuse	Deuteronomy 12-26 (T)	'her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law' [RKN:NuQ1_CRrA9A@13:35]
Ezekiel 22:26	H2	accuse	Deuteronomy 12-26 (T)	'her priests have violated my law' [RKN:NuQ1_CRrA9A@13:35]

The strands: the Documentary Hypothesis beside the hands

A different sorting of the same five books. The strands sort authorship, who wrote a sentence; the hands sort interventions, who reached back into it and from when. Shown together so a parenthesis can be read against the strand it sits in.

How to read this panel. Under the same seventeen marks, a barcode for Genesis to Deuteronomy: one thin column per chapter, split by how many of its verses the colour-coded Documentary text assigns to each strand, J the Jahwist, E the Elohist, P the Priestly writer, D the Deuteronomist, R the Redactor who stitched them. The short ticks above the barcode are this page's markers, in the colour of the edit point each one needs. Where a tick stands over a red column the parenthesis sits in a seam the Redactor made; where it stands over blue or teal it sits inside an old narrative, a later hand reaching into an older strand. The barcode stops at Deuteronomy because the hypothesis does; the hands run on to the Return. Hover a column for the chapter's counts.

Documentary strand	On this page
J and E, the oldest narratives	the Torah layer: what the hands received and cite; not a hand
D, Deuteronomy and the Joshua-to-Kings school	closest to Hand 1: same books, the same 'unto this day', the same citing of source scrolls; the school's sign-off is Josiah's, which is Hand 1's
P, the Priestly writer	an author who edits by framing, genealogies and dates, not by asides: dense in the barcode, thin in the markers; sits in the era of Hands 2 and 3
R, the Redactor	the nearest counterpart to a hand; the density panel below compares R per book with the markers per book

Density by book, with the Redactor overlay

The same markers as a rate, so a long book and a short one compare. The outlined bar is a different method on the same text.

Three readings of the same count

Documented literature, Ross K Nichols's reading from the corpus, and this project's own question about Butler's shape.

The formula literature

Childs (1963) read 'unto this day' as an editor's own confirmation of a received tradition, placed where a monument, a name or a custom could still be checked. Geoghegan (2006) counted its distribution across Joshua to Kings and argued for one Josianic hand. This page's count agrees on the shape: Joshua 15, Judges 7, Samuel 13, Kings 15 - the formula lives in the Deuteronomistic books, and in Genesis as land etiology.

documented: the formula clusters, and the cluster is the conquest-to-kings narrative

Ross K Nichols's reading

Every 'prophet' before Samuel is the seer-to-prophet update of 1 Samuel 9:9 applied backwards; Deuteronomy 12 to 26 is Josiah's scroll expanded; the Shapira text is the first-person Moses scroll without the parentheses, the baseline. On this page that reading is three strata: S2 for the vocabulary update, S3 for the law code, and a baseline that sits below S1 and is not on the line at all.

claimed: the strata agree with his order; the baseline rests on the Shapira text's genuineness

Against Butler's shape

Butler's line is story time: one mark per historical book. The edit points are text time. The reach between them is largest at the beginning of the line and closes toward the Return, where the writer and the story are finally contemporaries. The four cycles before the division are all retold from after it; the parentheses are where the retelling shows.

reading: the chart's early marks are the most edited, the late marks the least

What holds without the dating. Even with every stratum label removed, the count stands: 268 verses where the narrator speaks from after the story, concentrated in Joshua, Judges and Kings, with Genesis carrying the place-name layer. That is measured on the text and does not depend on any theory of who the hands were.

The six edit points

What each stratum means, how many markers need it, and the markers that define it.

Edit point	The hand knows	Markers	Defining verses
S1 in the land	a hand writing from inside Canaan, after the conquest and the renamings	143	Genesis 14:14 Dan named before Judges 18 renamed it; Exodus 16:35-36 an obsolete measure explained; manna 'until they came to a land inhabited'; Numbers 12:3 the narrator praises Moses in the third person; Deuteronomy 2:10-12 the Emim and Horite aside; Deuteronomy 2:20-23 the Zamzummim aside; Deuteronomy 3:11 Og's bedstead, a known sight
S2 under kings	a hand that has seen kings in Israel	9	Deuteronomy 34:5-12 the death of Moses and the prophet who never came
S3 two kingdoms	a hand that knows two kingdoms and the house of David's loss of Israel	63	Deuteronomy 12-26 the law code Ross dates to Josiah's scroll
S4 north gone	a hand after the fall of Samaria and the deportation of the north	7	Judges 18:30 the north is already gone; 2 Kings 17:23 the 'unto this day' formula; 2 Kings 17:23 the north is already gone; 2 Kings 17:34 the 'unto this day' formula
S5 Judah in Babylon	a hand that knows Chaldean Babylon and the exile of Judah	6	Leviticus 26:33-45 exile and return described as past; 2 Kings 25:27-30 the ending written after Jehoiachin's release (561 BCE)
S6 Persian province	a hand in the Persian province, with Persian coin and Aramaic	40	1 Chronicles 3:19-24 Zerubbabel's line carried six generations on

Ledger

Each claim the page makes, with its status and what the count or the record says.

Claim	Verdict	What the record says
The parentheses fall at a few points, not everywhere	measured	268 markers over 23,145 verses; 254 of them in the seventeen historical books; six strata by what they presuppose, with S1 and S3 holding 206 between them.
Kings and Joshua are the most edited books	measured	2 Kings 71 and Joshua 47 markers per thousand verses; Judges 29, 1 Kings 28, Deuteronomy 24, Genesis 22. Leviticus 1.
Every mark before the Kingdom is reached by a hand from at least two strata later	measured	Patriarchs and Babel reached from S5 (Chaldees), Sinai from S5 (Leviticus 26), Wilderness and Jericho from S3, Judges from S4, Bondage and Exodus and Jordan from S1 only.
'Unto this day' is an editor's comment, and its spread marks one editorial campaign	documented	Childs on the formula as the editor's own witness; Geoghegan on its distribution as one Josianic hand. This count reproduces the distribution, not the attribution.
1 Samuel 9:9 is a later editor updating vocabulary, and the update was applied backwards	claimed	The verse says so itself ('beforetime'). The backward application is Nichols's inference from 'seer' first appearing in Samuel; on this page it is stratum S2 at every 'prophet' in Genesis to Judges.
Deuteronomy 12 to 26 is Josiah's scroll, expanded	claimed	Nichols's reading of 2 Kings 22-23 against Deuteronomy; the mainstream date for Deuteronomy's core is the seventh century, the extent of expansion is his. Drawn as a single S3 block over the Wilderness mark.
The Documentary Hypothesis Redactor layer falls where the markers fall	open	The overlay panel shows R verses per chapter in the five books. Where R and the markers coincide (Genesis 14, Exodus 16, Deuteronomy 1-4) the two methods agree; where R is dense and markers absent (the Priestly frame) the hand is editorial but leaves no parenthesis.
The strata are separate hands, not one hand at six moods	measured	130 of 143 marked chapters carry one stratum only; S5 shares no chapter with S1-S4; S6 shares one each with S1 and S5. Separation is strongest for the two latest points, weakest between S1 and S3 (six shared chapters).
The hands refer to each other, but never by name: by copying, citing, colophon and accusation	documented	Four Chronicles verses keep Kings' 'unto this day' with the thing gone (2 Chronicles 5:9, 8:8, 10:19, 21:10); Kings and Nehemiah quote Deuteronomy by name; Proverbs 25:1 names Hezekiah's copyists; Jeremiah 8:8 calls the scribes' pen a lie. Each is a later hand pointing at an earlier layer as something received.
The Shapira text is the pre-edit baseline	claimed	A first-person Deuteronomy without the asides would sit below S1. It is Nichols's claim and rests on the strips' genuineness, which this project treats as his question, not a settled record.

The co-occurrence test, run. The strata are a terminus each; whether they are different hands shows in which ones share a chapter. Of the 143 chapters carrying a marker, 130 carry markers of one stratum only. The Babylon stratum never shares a chapter with any of the first four; the Persian stratum shares one chapter each with the land and Babylon strata; the two-kingdoms stratum shares six with the land stratum, all in Joshua, Judges and Kings, where a land etiology and a kings-era note sit in the same story. Hands that never meet on a page are the ones most safely counted as separate edit points: Babylon and Persia are, on this count.

Every marker

All hits, in canon order. Class, stratum, Butler mark, and the verse. Hand-listed asides carry the Ross K Nichols segment that discusses them.

Verse	Point	Mark	Kind	Text
Genesis 11:28	S5	Babel	Chaldean Babylon is already a name	And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:31	S5	Babel	Chaldean Babylon is already a name	And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they ca
Genesis 12:6	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	'then in the land'	And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
Genesis 13:7	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	'then in the land'	And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Genesis 14:2	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Genesis 14:7	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
Genesis 14:8	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
Genesis 14:14	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	Dan named before Judges 18 renamed it [RKN:ld5yzn52tAQ@19:20]	pursued them unto Dan
Genesis 15:7	S5	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	Chaldean Babylon is already a name	And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 19:22	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:37	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis 19:38	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Genesis 21:32	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:34	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis 22:14	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
Genesis 23:2	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:19	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 26:1	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis 26:8	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis 26:14	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:15	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Genesis 26:18	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his
Genesis 26:33	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
Genesis 28:19	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Genesis 32:32	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis 35:8	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
Genesis 35:19	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Genesis 35:20	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	the 'unto this day' formula	And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Genesis 35:27	S1	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	a place-name update	And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis 36:31	S2	Abraham, Isaac, Jacob	kings are already a known thing	And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 47:26	S1	Bondage	the 'unto this day' formula	And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
Genesis 48:7	S1	Bondage	a place-name update	And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:15	S1	Bondage	the 'unto this day' formula	And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Genesis 50:11	S1	Bondage	a place-name update	And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jorda
Exodus 10:6	S1	Bondage	the 'unto this day' formula	And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto thi
Exodus 13:17	S1	Exodus	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war,
Exodus 15:23	S1	Exodus	a place-name update	And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Exodus 16:35-36	S1	Exodus	an obsolete measure explained; manna 'until they came to a land inhabited' [RKN:6p8INORS9hM@58:43]	Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah
Exodus 23:31	S1	Sinai	a Philistine or a Rameses before their time	And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before the
Leviticus 26:33-45	S5	Sinai	exile and return described as past [RKN:uy0DzYiQfY8@59:51]	And I will scatter you among the heathen
Numbers 12:3	S1	Wilderness	the narrator praises Moses in the third person	the man Moses was very meek
Numbers 21:14	S3	Wilderness	the compiler names his source scroll	Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
Numbers 22:30	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.
Numbers 33:36	S1	Wilderness	a place-name update	And they removed from Eziongaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
Deuteronomy 1:1	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1:5	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:10-12	S1	Wilderness	the Emim and Horite aside [RKN:ELq8uThqx8w@1:01:36]	as Israel did unto the land of his possession
Deuteronomy 2:20-23	S1	Wilderness	the Zamzummim aside	that also was accounted a land of giants
Deuteronomy 2:22	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Deuteronomy 3:8	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
Deuteronomy 3:11	S1	Wilderness	Og's bedstead, a known sight [RKN:ELq8uThqx8w@1:08:04]	is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon?
Deuteronomy 3:14	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 3:20	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession,
Deuteronomy 3:25	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy 4:41	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deuteronomy 4:46	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 4:47	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
Deuteronomy 4:48	S1	Wilderness	a place-name update	From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
Deuteronomy 4:49	S1	Wilderness	the narrator stands west of Jordan	And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 10:6-9	S1	Wilderness	Aaron's death inserted into Moses' speech	there Aaron died, and there he was buried
Deuteronomy 10:8	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 11:4	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy 12-26	S3	Wilderness	the law code Ross dates to Josiah's scroll [RKN:-mSNkSqOTmQ@58:23]	the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land
Deuteronomy 29:4	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Deuteronomy 34:1	S1	Wilderness	Dan named before Judges 18 renamed it	all the land of Gilead, unto Dan
Deuteronomy 34:5-12	S2	Wilderness	the death of Moses and the prophet who never came [RKN:9ydUuynAIyM@52:11]	there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses
Deuteronomy 34:6	S1	Wilderness	the 'unto this day' formula	And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Joshua 4:9	S1	Jordan	the 'unto this day' formula	And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Joshua 5:9	S1	Jordan	the 'unto this day' formula	And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
Joshua 6:25	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Joshua 7:26	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Joshua 7:26	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
Joshua 8:28	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
Joshua 8:29	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and rais
Joshua 9:27	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua 10:13	S3	Jericho	the compiler names his source scroll	And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go dow
Joshua 11:10	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.
Joshua 13:13	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua 14:14	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
Joshua 14:15	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:8	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, whi
Joshua 15:9	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
Joshua 15:10	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua 15:15	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
Joshua 15:25	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
Joshua 15:49	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
Joshua 15:54	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
Joshua 15:60	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
Joshua 15:63	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Joshua 16:10	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
Joshua 18:13	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
Joshua 18:14	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the c
Joshua 18:28	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua 20:7	S1	Jericho	a place-name update	And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
Joshua 22:3	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Joshua 22:17	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua 23:8	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
Joshua 23:9	S1	Jericho	the 'unto this day' formula	For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
Judges 1:10	S1	Judges	a place-name update	And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:11	S1	Judges	a place-name update	And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher:
Judges 1:17	S1	Judges	a place-name update	And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
Judges 1:21	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.
Judges 1:23	S1	Judges	a place-name update	And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
Judges 1:26	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Judges 6:24	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Judges 10:4	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 15:19	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this d
Judges 17:6	S2	Judges	kings are already a known thing	In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:1	S2	Judges	kings are already a known thing	In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges 18:12	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
Judges 18:29	S1	Judges	a place-name update	And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
Judges 18:30	S4	Judges	the north is already gone	And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
Judges 19:1	S2	Judges	kings are already a known thing	And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
Judges 19:10	S1	Judges	a place-name update	But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
Judges 19:30	S1	Judges	the 'unto this day' formula	And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Judges 21:25	S2	Judges	kings are already a known thing	In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Ruth 4:7	S2	Judges	kings are already a known thing	Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.
1 Samuel 5:5	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
1 Samuel 6:18	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the
1 Samuel 8:8	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
1 Samuel 9:9	S1	Kingdom	a place-name update	(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
1 Samuel 9:9	S2	Kingdom	kings are already a known thing	(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
1 Samuel 12:2	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
1 Samuel 27:6	S3	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
1 Samuel 27:6	S2	Kingdom	kings are already a known thing	Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
1 Samuel 27:6	S3	Kingdom	the house of David has lost the north	Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
1 Samuel 29:3	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or
1 Samuel 29:6	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the da
1 Samuel 29:8	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
1 Samuel 30:25	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
2 Samuel 1:18	S3	Kingdom	the compiler names his source scroll	(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
2 Samuel 4:3	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
2 Samuel 6:8	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
2 Samuel 7:6	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
2 Samuel 18:18	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is cal
1 Kings 8:1	S1	Kingdom	a place-name update	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LO
1 Kings 8:8	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
1 Kings 9:13	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
1 Kings 9:21	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
1 Kings 10:12	S1	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
1 Kings 11:41	S3	Kingdom	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
1 Kings 12:19	S3	Division	the 'unto this day' formula	So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings 12:19	S3	Division	the house of David has lost the north	So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings 14:19	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
1 Kings 14:29	S3	Division	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 14:29	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 15:7	S3	Division	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15:7	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15:23	S3	Division	the house of David has lost the north	The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he
1 Kings 15:23	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he
1 Kings 15:31	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:5	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:14	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:20	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:27	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 22:39	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 22:45	S3	Division	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings 22:45	S3	Division	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 1:18	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 2:22	S1	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
2 Kings 8:22	S1	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
2 Kings 8:23	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 8:23	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 10:27	S1	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2 Kings 10:34	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 12:19	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 12:19	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 13:8	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 13:12	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:7	S1	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
2 Kings 14:15	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:18	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:18	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:28	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
2 Kings 15:6	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:6	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:11	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:15	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:21	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 15:26	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:31	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 15:36	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:36	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 16:6	S1	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
2 Kings 16:19	S3	Assyria	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 16:19	S3	Assyria	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 17:23	S4	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings 17:23	S4	Assyria	the north is already gone	Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings 17:34	S4	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, wh
2 Kings 17:34	S4	Assyria	the north is already gone	Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, wh
2 Kings 17:41	S4	Assyria	the 'unto this day' formula	So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings 18:5	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
2 Kings 20:17	S1	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
2 Kings 20:20	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 20:20	S3	Babylon	the compiler names his source scroll	And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:15	S1	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
2 Kings 21:17	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:17	S3	Babylon	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:25	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 21:25	S3	Babylon	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 23:5	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to
2 Kings 23:11	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of
2 Kings 23:12	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake th
2 Kings 23:22	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings 23:28	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 23:28	S3	Babylon	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 24:5	S3	Babylon	the house of David has lost the north	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 24:5	S3	Babylon	the compiler names his source scroll	Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 25:27-30	S5	Babylon	the ending written after Jehoiachin's release (561 BCE)	Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin
1 Chronicles 1:27	S6	Kingdom	a place-name update	Abram; the same is Abraham.
1 Chronicles 3:19-24	S6	Kingdom	Zerubbabel's line carried six generations on	the sons of Zerubbabel
1 Chronicles 4:41	S6	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there wa
1 Chronicles 4:43	S6	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
1 Chronicles 5:26	S6	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and b
1 Chronicles 11:4	S6	Kingdom	a place-name update	And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
1 Chronicles 13:11	S6	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
1 Chronicles 17:5	S6	Kingdom	the 'unto this day' formula	For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
1 Chronicles 29:7	S6	Kingdom	Persian coin, Persian kings	And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
2 Chronicles 5:2	S6	Babylon	a place-name update	Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David,
2 Chronicles 5:9	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
2 Chronicles 8:8	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
2 Chronicles 10:19	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
2 Chronicles 18:7	S6	Babylon	a place-name update	And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jeho
2 Chronicles 20:2	S6	Babylon	a place-name update	Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
2 Chronicles 20:26	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles 21:10	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 35:25	S6	Babylon	the 'unto this day' formula	And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles 36:22	S6	Babylon	Persian coin, Persian kings	Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation througho
2 Chronicles 36:23	S6	Babylon	Persian coin, Persian kings	Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people?
Ezra 1:1	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his
Ezra 1:2	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra 1:8	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
Ezra 2:69	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
Ezra 3:7	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they
Ezra 4:3	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Isra
Ezra 4:5	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 4:7	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Sy
Ezra 4:24	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 6:14	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, an
Ezra 7:1	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
Ezra 8:27	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ezra 9:7	S6	Return	the 'unto this day' formula	Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity
Ezra 10:23	S6	Return	a place-name update	Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Nehemiah 7:70	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
Nehemiah 7:71	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
Nehemiah 7:72	S6	Return	Persian coin, Persian kings	And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.
Nehemiah 9:7	S5	Return	Chaldean Babylon is already a name	Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Nehemiah 9:32	S6	Return	the 'unto this day' formula	Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our pries
Esther 1:19	S6	-	Persian coin, Persian kings	If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the ki
Esther 9:13	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
Esther 10:2	S3	-	the compiler names his source scroll	And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Song of Solomon 1:1	S1	-	a place-name update	The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Song of Solomon 3:7	S1	-	a place-name update	Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
Isaiah 39:6	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:25	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 7:25	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah 11:7	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jeremiah 25:3	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; b
Jeremiah 32:20	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
Jeremiah 32:31	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Jeremiah 33:11	S4	-	the north is already gone	The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and
Jeremiah 35:14	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising
Jeremiah 36:2	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
Jeremiah 44:10	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Ezekiel 20:29	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:31	S1	-	the 'unto this day' formula	For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lor
Daniel 10:1	S6	-	Persian coin, Persian kings	In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding
Daniel 10:4	S1	-	a place-name update	And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;

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