715 verses contain “First” (in the KJV: 630, in the BSB: 498) — showing 701–715
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Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem:
For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join with Alexander against us:
But with Alexander they were well pleased, because he was the first that entreated of true peace with them, and they were confederate with him always.
Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
And entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.
So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after him.
To stand upon every point, and go over things at large, and to be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the story:
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.
Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.