'Happened' in the Bible

It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards’ room.

It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.