Rabbi Joḥanan taught that wherever Scripture uses the term "And he abode" (, "vayeshev"), as it does in , it presages trouble. Thus in , "And Israel abode in Shittim" is followed by "and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab." In , "And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan," is followed by , "and Joseph brought to his father their evil report." In , "And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen," is followed by , "And the time drew near that Israel must die." In , "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree," is followed by , "And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was the king's seed in Edom."