'First' in the Bible

Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign and rested with his fathers.

But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “First, please ask what the Lord’s will is.”

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of the Lord’s temple. They consecrated the Lord’s temple for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

Josiah observed the Lord’s Passover and slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, the word of the Lord spoken through Jeremiah was fulfilled. The Lord put it into the mind of King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his entire kingdom and also to put it in writing: