So that's what Jeroboam's wife did. She got up, went to Shiloh, and found Ahijah's home. Ahijah was blind, because his eyes could not focus due to his age.

God told Solomon, "Since you had this in mind, to ask neither to focus on riches, wealth, honor, or the lives of those who hate you, nor have you requested a long life, but instead you have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may rule my people over whom I have established you as king,

Tobiah the Ammonite stood to the side, commenting, "If a fox were to jump onto what they're building, it would collapse their stone wall!"

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, can I focus my attention on a virgin?

I will focus my attention on a proverb; I will use the harp to expound my riddle.

Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

Let your eyes look directly ahead; fix your gaze straight in front of you.

Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,

When you fix your gaze on it, it's gone, for it sprouts wings for itself and flies to the sky like an eagle.

It is better to focus on what you can see than to meander after your self-interest; this also is pointless and a chasing after wind.

For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.

"And now, Son of Man, on the day that I take their strength, joy, and glory from them, those whom they love to watch, the focus of their affection their sons and daughters

Then he'll return to his homeland with great wealth, will focus his attention against the holy covenant, and will take action as he returns to his land.'"

Even if they go into exile among their enemies, from there I will order the sword to kill them. I will fix my gaze on them to inflict disaster, and not to do good.

Truly the family idols talk nonsense and the diviners discern lies, describing delusional dreams. Since their comfort is vacuous, they wander off on their own like sheep, because there is no shepherd.

for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs."

He told them, "Go and tell that fox, "Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work.

To focus our minds on the human nature leads to death, but to focus our minds on the Spirit leads to life and peace.

Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.