# bible

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<verse num="43">Then the king of Israel went to his house, sullen and angry, and he came to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Naboth said to Ahab, "Far be it from me from Yahweh that I should give the inheritance of my ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to you."</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then Ahab went to his house, sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him <transChange type="added">when</transChange> he had said, "I will not give to you the inheritance of my ancestors."<note>Or "fathers"</note> So he lay on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat <transChange type="added">any</transChange> food. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, "What is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?"</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then he said to her, "When I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him, 'Give me your vineyard for money, or it you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in place of it,' he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'"</verse>


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<verse num="7">Jezebel his wife said to him, "Now, you {rule}<note>Literally "do kingship"</note> over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be {cheerful}.<note>Literally "good"</note> I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." </verse>


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<verse num="8">So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dwelling with Naboth in his city.</verse>


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<verse num="9">She had written in the letters, saying, "Call a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Seat two men, {scoundrels},<note>Literally "sons of wickedness"</note> opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies."</verse>


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<verse num="11">The men of his city and the elders and nobles who were living in his city did according to what Jezebel had sent to them, as <transChange type="added">was</transChange> written in the letters which she had sent to them.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then the two men, {scoundrels},<note>Literally "sons of wickedness"</note> came, sat opposite him, and the {scoundrels}<note>Literally "men of wickedness"</note> witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king," so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="15">It happened at the moment Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and died, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he had refused to give to you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead."</verse>


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<verse num="16">When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"Arise, go down to meet Ahab the king of Israel who is in Samaria. Look in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it.</verse>


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<verse num="19">You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '" </verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="21">'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> bringing disaster on you, and I will sweep away after you. I will cut off for Ahab {every male}<note>"Literally "the one who urinates against the wall"</note> in Israel, bond or free.</verse>


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<verse num="22">I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, {because you made me angry}<note>Literally "for the provocation which you have provoked"</note> and have caused Israel to sin.'</verse>


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<verse num="23">Moreover, concerning Jezebel, Yahweh has said, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the outer rampart of Jezreel.'</verse>


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<verse num="24">The one who dies for Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat; the one who dies in the open country, the birds of heaven will eat." </verse>


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<verse num="25">Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Also, he acted very abominably by going after idols like all the Amorites had done whom Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="27">When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.</verse>


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<verse num="29">"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son." </verse>


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<verse num="2">It happened in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to the king of Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?"</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to the battle for Ramoth-Gilead?" Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "{I am like you};<note>Literally "Like I am, like you are"</note> {my people are like your people};<note>Literally "like my people, like your people"</note> {my horses are like your horses}."<note>Literally "like my horses, like your horses"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="5">Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire for the word of Yahweh today."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king."</verse>


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<verse num="7">So Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might still inquire from him?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "<transChange type="added">There is</transChange> still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so."</verse>


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<verse num="9">The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, "Quickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah."</verse>


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<verse num="10">The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> each sitting on his throne, dressed <transChange type="added">in their</transChange> robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> all the prophets prophesying before them.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.'"</verse>


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<verse num="12">All of the prophets <transChange type="added">were</transChange> likewise prophesying, saying, "Go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ramoth-Gilead and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Please now, the words of the prophet are {unanimously}<note>Literally "one mouth"</note> favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Micaiah said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak."</verse>


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<verse num="15">When he came to the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to the battle, or shall we refrain?" He said to him, "Go up and triumph, and Yahweh will give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the hand of the king."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then the king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear that you shall not tell me <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> but truth in the name of Yahweh?"</verse>


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<verse num="17">So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'"</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but disaster?" </verse>


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<verse num="19">And he<note>That is, Micaiah</note> said, "Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne with all the hosts of heaven standing beside him from his right hand and from his left <transChange type="added">hand</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' Then {this one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another}.<note>Literally "this one said in thus and this one was saying in thus"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">Then a spirit came out and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him,' and Yahweh said to him, 'How?'</verse>


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<verse num="22">He said, 'I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he<note>That is, Yahweh</note> said, 'You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.'</verse>


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<verse num="23">So then, see that Yahweh has placed a false spirit in the mouth of all of these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken disaster concerning you." </verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah came near and slapped Micaiah on the cheek and said, "When did the Spirit of Yahweh pass from me to speak with you?"</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you <transChange type="added">are about to</transChange> see on that day when you go {from room to room}<note>Literally "private room in private room"</note> to hide."</verse>


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<verse num="26">The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king;</verse>


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<verse num="27">and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this <transChange type="added">fellow in</transChange> the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '"</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then Micaiah said, "If you indeed return in peace, then Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Let all the peoples hear!" </verse>


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<verse num="29">Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ramoth-Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "<transChange type="added">I will</transChange> disguise myself and go into the battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and he went into the battle.</verse>


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<verse num="31">The king of Aram commanded his thirty-two chariot commanders, saying, "You shall not fight with small or great, but only against the king of Israel, him alone!"</verse>


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<verse num="32">When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of Israel," and they turned to fight against him, so Jehoshaphat called out.</verse>


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<verse num="33">When the chariot commanders saw that it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.</verse>


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<verse num="34">But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, "Turn {the chariot}<note>Literally "your hand"</note> and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded." </verse>


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<verse num="35">The battle intensified on that day, and the king was being propped up in the chariot opposite Aram, but he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound ran out to the floor of the chariot.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Then the shout passed through the camp about sunset, saying, "Each man to his city and each to his land!"</verse>


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<verse num="37">So the king died, and {they brought him}<note>Literally "and he went"</note> to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="38">They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked his blood (now, the prostitutes washed themselves <transChange type="added">there</transChange>) according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken.</verse>


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<verse num="39">The remainder of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory palace and all the cities that he built, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="40">So Ahab slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="41">Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="42">Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.</verse>


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<verse num="43">He walked in all of the way of Asa his father, and he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh.<note>1 Kings 22:44 begins here in the Hebrew Bible</note> Only he did not remove the high places; the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.</verse>


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<verse num="44"><note>1 Kings 22:44- 53 in the English Bible is 22:45-54 in the Hebrew Bible</note> But, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="45">The remainder of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange> he did, and how he fought, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="46">The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land.</verse>


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<verse num="47">There was not a king in Edom; a governor <transChange type="added">served</transChange> as king.</verse>


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<verse num="48">Jehoshaphat built<note>According to the reading tradition(Qere); what is written (Kethib) is "ten"</note> ships of the Tarshish <transChange type="added">type</transChange> to go to Ophir for the gold; but he did not go because the ships were destroyed at Ezion-Geber.</verse>


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<verse num="49">Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing.</verse>


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<verse num="50">And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David his ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> and Joram his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="51">Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.</verse>


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<verse num="52">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went in the way of his father and his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin.</verse>


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<verse num="53">He served Baal and bowed down to him; and he provoked Yahweh the God of Israel according to all that his father did. </verse>


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<verse num="2">Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury." </verse>


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<verse num="3">Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and speak to them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?'</verse>


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<verse num="4">Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'The bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, but you shall surely die.'" So Elijah went. </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and he said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.'" '"</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then he spoke to them, "What <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the manner of the man who came up to meet you and spoke to you all these things?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">They answered him, "A {hairy man}<note>Literally "an owner of hair"</note> with a leather belt girded around his waist." And he said, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Elijah the Tishbite." </verse>


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<verse num="9">So {Ahaziah}<note>Literally "he"</note> sent to him the commander of fifty with his fifty <transChange type="added">men</transChange>, and he went up to him while he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "<transChange type="added">O</transChange> man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Elijah answered and said to the commander of the fifty, "If I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. </verse>


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<verse num="11">So he {again sent}<note>Literally "returned and sent"</note> another commander of fifty and his fifty <transChange type="added">men</transChange>. He answered and said to him, "<transChange type="added">O</transChange> man of God, thus says the king, 'Come down quickly!'"</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Elijah answered and said to them, "If I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. </verse>


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<verse num="13">So he {again sent}<note>Literally "returned and sent"</note> a third <transChange type="added">time</transChange> a commander of fifty and his fifty, and the commander of the third fifty went up and came and knelt down on his knees before Elijah and entreated him. He said to him, "<transChange type="added">O</transChange> man of God, please let my life and the lives of your servants, these fifty, be precious in your eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Behold, fire from heaven came down and consumed the first two commanders of fifty and their fifties, so then let my life be precious in your eyes."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah, "Go down with him. Do not be afraid because of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king,</verse>


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<verse num="16">and he said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron--is it because there is no God in Israel <transChange type="added">from whom</transChange> to inquire his word?--therefore the bed upon which you went, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.'" </verse>


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<verse num="17">So he died, according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken, and Joram became king in his place in the second year of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, because he had no son.</verse>


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<verse num="18">The remainder of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? </verse>


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<verse num="1">When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up in the storm <transChange type="added">to</transChange> heaven, Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "{As Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> and {as your soul lives},<note>Literally "life of your soul"</note> I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then the sons of the prophets who <transChange type="added">were in</transChange> Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going to take your master {from you}<note>Literally "from over your head"</note> today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" </verse>


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<verse num="4">Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "{As Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> and {as your soul lives},<note>Literally "life of your soul"</note> I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then the sons of the prophets who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going to take your master {from you}<note>Literally "from over your head"</note> today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "{As Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> and {as your soul lives},<note>Literally "life of your soul"</note> I will certainly not leave you!" So the two of them went on.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite <transChange type="added">them</transChange> at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water. It divided {in two},<note>Literally "here and here"</note> and the two of them crossed over on dry land. </verse>


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<verse num="9">After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I may do for you before I am taken away from you." Then Elisha said, "Please let there come to me a double portion of your spirit."</verse>


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<verse num="10">He said, "What you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire <transChange type="added">appeared</transChange> and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the heavens</verse>


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<verse num="12">while Elisha <transChange type="added">was</transChange> watching and crying out, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then he picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off of him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="14">He took Elijah's cloak that had fallen from upon him and struck the water. Then he said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" So he also struck the water, and it divided {in two},<note>Literally "here and here"</note> and Elisha crossed over. </verse>


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<verse num="15">When the sons of the prophets who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at Jericho saw him from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> other side, they declared, "The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha," and they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then they said to him, "Look, there are with your servants fifty able men. Please let them go and look for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has lifted him up and thrown him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys," but he said, "You must not send them."</verse>


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<verse num="17">But they urged him until embarrassing <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, so he said, "Send them." So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then they returned to him while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?" </verse>


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<verse num="19">The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good, as my master can see, but the water <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bad and the land unproductive."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt <transChange type="added">into it</transChange> there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'"</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke. </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then he went up from there <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel; as he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"</verse>


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<verse num="24">When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then he went from there to Mount Carmel and from there he returned <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Joram the son of Ahab had become king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He reigned twelve years</verse>


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<verse num="2">and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made.</verse>


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<verse num="3">But he did cling to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. </verse>


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<verse num="4">Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to deliver to the king of Israel a hundred thousand male lambs and a hundred thousand wool rams.</verse>


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<verse num="5">It happened that when Ahab died, Mesha king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="6">So King Joram went out on that day from Samaria, and he mustered all of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">He went and sent <transChange type="added">a message</transChange> to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab for the battle?" And he said, "I will go up. {I am like you};<note>Literally "Like I am, like you are"</note> {my people are like your people};<note>Literally "like my people, like your people"</note> {my horses are like your horses}."<note>Literally "like my horses, like your horses"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Then he said, "Which way shall we go up?" And he answered, "By way of the wilderness of Edom." </verse>


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<verse num="9">So the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom went around, a way of seven days, but there was no water for the army or for the animals which {were with them}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> at their feet"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the king of Israel said, "Aha, Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might inquire <transChange type="added">guidance</transChange> from Yahweh?" One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah."<note>That is, Elisha had served Elijah</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "{What do we have in common}?<note>Literally "What to me and what for you"</note> Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." Then the king of Israel said to him, "No, for Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Elisha said, "{As Yahweh of hosts lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh of hosts"</note> before whom I stand, surely if I was not {regarding the face}<note>Or "lifting the face"</note> of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would have not looked at you nor even glanced at you.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But now, bring me a musician." It happened that at the moment the musician played, the hand of Yahweh came upon him.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this wadi {full of cisterns},'<note>Literally "cisterns, cisterns"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">for thus says Yahweh, 'You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this wadi will be full of water; and you and all of your livestock and your animals shall drink.'</verse>


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<verse num="18">And since this is too trivial in the eyes of Yahweh, he will also give Moab into your hand,</verse>


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<verse num="19">and you shall defeat every fortified city, every choice city, and you shall fell every good tree. All of the springs of water you shall stop up, and every tract of good land you shall ruin with the stones."</verse>


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<verse num="20">It happened in the morning about the time of the <transChange type="added">morning</transChange> offering, that water was suddenly coming from the direction of Edom and the land was filled with water. </verse>


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<verse num="21">Now all of Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and all {who were fighting age and up}<note>Literally "who girded on a belt and above"</note> were called up, and they stood at the border.</verse>


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<verse num="22">When they arose early in the morning, the sun shone on the waters, and Moab saw the waters from the opposite <transChange type="added">side</transChange> as red as blood.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then they said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blood! Certainly the kings have fought one another, and each has killed his neighbor. Now, to the war booty, O Moab!"</verse>


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<verse num="24">But when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel stood up and killed Moab, so that they fled from before them. They came at her and defeated Moab.</verse>


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<verse num="25">The cities they tore down, <transChange type="added">on</transChange> every good tract of land they threw stones until it was filled up, every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. They let the stone walls at Kir Hareseth remain, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it.</verse>


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<verse num="26">When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too heavy for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able.</verse>


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<verse num="27">He took his firstborn son who was to become king in his place and offered him <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a burnt offering on the wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, and they withdrew from him and returned to the land. </verse>


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<verse num="1">A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Elisha asked her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" Then she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of olive oil."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself <transChange type="added">some</transChange> containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. {You must collect as many empty containers as you can}!<note>Literally "You must not collect only a few empty containers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out <transChange type="added">oil</transChange> into all of these containers and set the filled <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> aside."</verse>


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<verse num="5">So she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and her children. They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> bringing <transChange type="added">containers</transChange> to her, and she <transChange type="added">kept</transChange> pouring.</verse>


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<verse num="6">It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring near me another container," but he said to her, "There is not another container." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.</verse>


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<verse num="7">So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." </verse>


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<verse num="8">It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.</verse>


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<verse num="9">She said to her husband, "Please now, I know that he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a holy man of God who is passing {our way}<note>Literally "upon us"</note> regularly;</verse>


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<verse num="10">let us make a small enclosed room <transChange type="added">upstairs</transChange> and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there.</verse>


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<verse num="11">One day it happened that he came there and went to the upper room and lay down there.</verse>


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<verse num="12">He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call to this Shunammite," so he called to her, and she stood before him.</verse>


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<verse num="13">He said to him, "Please say to her, 'Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there <transChange type="added">for me</transChange> to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> living among my people."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then he said, "What may be done for her?" Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he said, "Call for her," so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he said, "At this time {next spring},<note>Literally "about that season as the time of life"</note> you <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!"</verse>


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<verse num="17">But the woman conceived, and she bore a son {in the spring},<note>Literally "about that season as the time of life"</note> which Elisha had promised to her. </verse>


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<verse num="18">The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to the reapers.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.</verse>


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<verse num="21">She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed <transChange type="added">the door</transChange>, and went out behind it.</verse>


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<verse num="22">She called to her husband and said, "Please send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he said, "Why are you going to him today? <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> neither the new moon nor the Sabbath!" And she said, "Peace."</verse>


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<verse num="24">She saddled the female donkey, and she said to her servant, "Drive along and go; you must not hold me back from riding, unless I tell you."</verse>


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<verse num="25">So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her {at a distance},<note>Literally "from opposite"</note> he said to Gehazi his servant, "There is this Shunammite.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Now, please run to meet her and ask her, 'Is it peace for you? Is it peace for your husband? Is it peace for the boy?'" She said, "Peace."</verse>


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<verse num="27">So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say that you must not mislead me?" </verse>


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<verse num="29">Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy."</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then the mother of the boy said, "{As Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> and {as your soul lives},<note>Literally "life of your soul"</note> I will surely not leave you." So he got up and went after her.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Gehazi crossed over before them, and he put the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound, and there was no sign of life, so he returned to meet him. He told him, saying, "The boy did not wake up." </verse>


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<verse num="32">When Elisha came to the house, here <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the boy dead, lying on his bed.</verse>


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<verse num="34">Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. As he bent down over him, the flesh of the boy became warm.</verse>


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<verse num="35">He returned and went {to and fro}<note>Literally "here first and here"</note> in the house one time, then he went up and bent over him. Then the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="36"><transChange type="added">Elisha</transChange> called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her and she came to him; then he said, "Pick up your son."</verse>


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<verse num="37">She came and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out. </verse>


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<verse num="38">So Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now the famine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, put on the large pot and cook a stew for the sons of the prophets.</verse>


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<verse num="39">One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a {wild vine}<note>Literally "a vine of the field"</note> and gathered wild gourds from it <transChange type="added">and</transChange> filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know <transChange type="added">what they were</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="40">They served the men to eat, but when they ate from the stew, they cried out and said, "There <transChange type="added">is</transChange> death in the pot, <transChange type="added">O</transChange> man of God!" They were not able to eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="41">Then he said, "Bring <transChange type="added">some</transChange> flour," and he threw it into the pot. He then said, "Serve the people and let them eat." There was nothing harmful in the pot. </verse>


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<verse num="42">A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought food to the man of God: firstfruits and twenty loaves of barley bread, with ripe grain in his sack. He said, "Give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the people and let them eat."</verse>


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<verse num="43">Then his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred men?" He said, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus Yahweh says, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'"</verse>


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<verse num="44">So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Naaman was the commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man before his master and {highly regarded},<note>Literally "faces were being lifted up "</note> for by him Yahweh had given victory to Aram. Now the man was a mighty warrior, <transChange type="added">but he was</transChange> afflicted with a skin disease.</verse>


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<verse num="2">When the Arameans went <transChange type="added">on</transChange> a raid, they brought back a young girl from the land of Israel, and {she came into the service of}<note>Literally "she became before"</note> the wife of Naaman.</verse>


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<verse num="3">She said to her mistress, "If only my lord would <transChange type="added">come</transChange> before the prophet who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Samaria; then {he would cure his skin disease}."<note>Literally "he would withdraw him from his skin disease"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">He came and told his master, saying, "Thus and so the girl who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from the land of Israel said."</verse>


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<verse num="5">So the king of Aram said, "Go, I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He went and took {with him}<note>Literally "in his hand"</note> ten talents of silver, six thousand <transChange type="added">shekels of</transChange> gold, and ten sets of clothing. </verse>


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<verse num="6">So he brought the letter of the king to Israel, saying, "Now, when this letter comes to you, I have just sent Naaman my servant to you that you may cure him from his skin disease."</verse>


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<verse num="7">It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me." </verse>


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<verse num="8">It happened that as soon as Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why did you tear your clothes? Please may he come to me, that he might know that there is a prophet in Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the house of Elisha.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, you must wash seven times in the Jordan, then your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be clean."</verse>


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<verse num="11">But Naaman became angry and he went and said, "Look, I said to myself, 'Surely he will come out, stand, call upon the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hands over the spot; then he would take away the skin disease.'</verse>


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<verse num="12">Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them that I may be clean?" Then he turned and left in anger.</verse>


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<verse num="13">But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>? <transChange type="added">Why not</transChange> even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?"</verse>


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<verse num="14">So he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh returned as the flesh of a small boy, and he was clean. </verse>


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<verse num="15">When he returned to the man of God, he and all of his army, he came and stood before him and said, "Please now, I know that there is no God in all of the world except in Israel. So then, please take a gift from your servant."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> before whom I stand, I surely will not take <transChange type="added">it</transChange>." <transChange type="added">Still</transChange> he urged him to take <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, but he refused.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Naaman said, "If not, then please let a load of soil on a pair of mules be given to your servants, for your servant will never again bring a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> only to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="18">As far as this matter, may Yahweh pardon your servant when my master goes <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> leaning himself on my arm, that I also bow down <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Rimmon: when I bow down <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh please pardon your servant in this matter."</verse>


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<verse num="19">He said to him, "Go in peace," so he went from him {a short distance}.<note>Literally "a stretch of land"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. {As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him."</verse>


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<verse num="21">So Gehazi pursued after Naaman. When Naaman saw <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> running after him, he jumped off his chariot to meet him and asked him, "<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> peace?"</verse>


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<verse num="22">He said, "Peace. My master has sent me saying, 'Look, {just now}<note>Literally "now this"</note> two servants from the hill country of Ephraim came to me, from the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.'"</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then Naaman said, "Be prepared to accept two talents." So he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing and gave it to two of his servants and they carried it before him.</verse>


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<verse num="24">When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, then sent away the men so that they went.</verse>


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<verse num="25">When he went and stood by his master, Elisha asked him, "From where have you come, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant has not gone {anywhere}."<note>Literally "where to where"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="26">Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go <transChange type="added">with you</transChange> as the man turned from on his chariot to meet you? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it time to take silver, clothes, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male slaves, and female slaves?</verse>


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<verse num="27">The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Please look; the place where we are living before you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> too cramped for us.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Let us please go to the Jordan and each bring from there one log that we might make a place there for us to live." Then he said, "Do so."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then a certain one said, "Please be prepared and go with your servants," and he said, "I will go."</verse>


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<verse num="5">It happened as the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, "Oh, no! My master, it was borrowed!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" So he showed him the place, and then he cut off a stick and threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> there and made the iron ax float.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then he said, "Pick <transChange type="added">it</transChange> up for yourself," so he stretched out his hand and took it. </verse>


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<verse num="8">The king of Aram was fighting with Israel, so he consulted with his officers, saying, "My camp is {at such and such a place}."<note>Literally "to a place a certain someone"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Take care while crossing over to this place, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans <transChange type="added">are</transChange> descending there."</verse>


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<verse num="10">So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there {continually}.<note>Literally "not once or twice"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, "Can you not tell me {who among us sides with the king of Israel}?"<note>Literally "who from of us to the king of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Then one of his servants said, "No, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak {in your own bedchamber}."<note>Literally "in the private room of your bed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">Then he said, "Go and see where he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> so that I can send and capture him." Then he was told to him, "Look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> in Dothan."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town.</verse>


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<verse num="15">The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army <transChange type="added">was</transChange> surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, "Oh no, my master! What shall we do?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he said, "Don't be afraid, for more <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with us than are with them."</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see," and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain <transChange type="added">was</transChange> full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.</verse>


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<verse num="18">They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, "Please strike this people with blindness," so he struck them with blindness as {Elisha had spoken}.<note>Literally "according to the word of Elisha"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Elisha said to them, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not the way and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." Then he brought them to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="20">It happened at the moment they came to Samaria, Elisha said, "O Yahweh, open the eyes of these that they may see," so Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw, and look, the middle of Samaria!</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, "Shall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?"</verse>


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<verse num="22">And he said, "You shall not kill. Would you kill <transChange type="added">those</transChange> whom you took captive with the sword or with the bow? Put food and water before them that they may eat and drink and then go to their master."</verse>


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<verse num="23">So he made a great feast for them, and they ate and drank; then he sent them, and they went to their master. And the bands of the Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="24">It happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Aram assembled all of his army and marched up and laid siege against Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="25">There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against it, until the head of a donkey <transChange type="added">went</transChange> for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves <transChange type="added">went</transChange> for five shekels of silver.</verse>


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<verse num="26">It happened that the king of Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, "Help, my lord the king!"</verse>


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<verse num="27">He said, "No, let Yahweh help you. {How}<note>Literally "From where"</note> can I save you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?"</verse>


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<verse num="28">The king said to her, "{What is the problem}?"<note>Literally "What is for you"</note> Then the woman said, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son, and let us eat him today, then tomorrow we will eat my son.'</verse>


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<verse num="29">So we cooked my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, 'Give your son that we may eat him.' But she had hidden her son."</verse>


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<verse num="30">It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then he said, "May God do to me and thus may he add, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!"</verse>


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<verse num="32">Now Elisha <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting in his house and the elders <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sitting with him, and <transChange type="added">the king</transChange> dispatched a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Did you see that this son of a murderer has sent to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, close the door; and you must {hold the door closed against him}.<note>Literally "hold him close against the door"</note> <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not the sound of the feet of his master behind him?"</verse>


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<verse num="33">While he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?" </verse>


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<verse num="1">Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh: 'Thus says Yahweh, "At this time tomorrow a seah of wheat bread flour <transChange type="added">will sell</transChange> for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.'"</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then the officer {on whom the king relied}<note>Literally "whom the king was leaning on his hand"</note> answered the man of God and said, "Look, <transChange type="added">even if</transChange> Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> seeing <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there." </verse>


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<verse num="3">Now four men who had a skin disease were <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gate, and they said {to each other},<note>Literally "each to his friend"</note> "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> we sitting here until we die?</verse>


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<verse num="4">If we say, 'Let us go <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the city,' the famine <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall die. So then, come, let us fall into the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans. If they let us live, we shall live; but if they kill us, then we shall die."</verse>


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<verse num="5">So they got up at dusk to go to the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans. They went up to the edge of the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans, and look, there was no man there!</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now the Lord had caused the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army. So they said {to one another},<note>Literally "each to his brother"</note> "Look, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us!"</verse>


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<verse num="7">So they got up and fled at dusk and left their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was, and they fled for their lives.</verse>


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<verse num="8">When these who had the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into a certain tent and they ate, drank, and took from there silver and gold and clothes. Then they went and hid <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, then returned and came to another tent, and they took from there and went and hid <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Then they said {to one another},<note>Literally "each to his friend"</note> "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and {we will be punished}.<note>Literally "guiltiness"</note> So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king."</verse>


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<verse num="10">When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents <transChange type="added">were left</transChange> as they <transChange type="added">were</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then the gatekeepers called and told <transChange type="added">it</transChange> inside the house of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "Please let me tell you what <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans have done to us. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> Arameans know that we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, 'When they go out from the city, we shall seize them alive and go into the city.'"</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then one of his servants replied and said, "Please let them take five of the remaining horses which remain in <transChange type="added">the city</transChange>; behold, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like all of the multitude of Israel that remain in it; they are like all the multitude of Israel who have perished. Let us send and see."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans, saying, "Go, find out,"</verse>


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<verse num="15">and they went after them to the Jordan. Look, all of the way <transChange type="added">was</transChange> littered with clothes and equipment which <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king. </verse>


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<verse num="16">So the people went out and plundered the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans. A seah of wheat flour <transChange type="added">went</transChange> for a shekel and two seahs of barley <transChange type="added">went</transChange> for a shekel according to the word of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then the king appointed the officer he was depending on over the gate, but the people trampled him and he died, according to that which the man of God had said which he spoke when the king came down to him.</verse>


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<verse num="18">It happened as the man of God spoke to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley <transChange type="added">shall be sold</transChange> for a shekel and a seah of wheat flour for a shekel at this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria."</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he had said, "Look you <transChange type="added">are about to</transChange> see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Get up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven years."</verse>


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<verse num="2">So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines for seven years.</verse>


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<verse num="3">It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her {properties}.<note>Literally "fields"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">Now the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> speaking to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all of the great things which Elisha has done."</verse>


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<verse num="5">It happened that as he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, suddenly the woman whose son he had restored to life <transChange type="added">was</transChange> crying out to the king about her household and about her field. Then Gehazi said, "My lord the king, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">So the king asked the woman, and she told him. So the king appointed for her a certain court official, saying, "Restore all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> hers and all the yield of the field from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day she left the land up to now." </verse>


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<verse num="7">Elisha came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Damascus. Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ill, and he was told, "The man of God has come up here."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God. Inquire of Yahweh from him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'"</verse>


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<verse num="9">So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand of all of the good things of Damascus, a load <transChange type="added">on each</transChange> of forty camels, and he came and stood before him. Then he said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Elisha said to him, "Go; say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then the man {fixed his gaze and stared at him}<note>Literally "caused his face to stand and set it"</note> until he was ashamed and the man of God cried.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Hazael asked, "Why <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my lord crying?" He said, "Because I know what evil you will do to the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> You will {set their fortifications on fire},<note>Literally "you will send their fortifications with the fire"</note> and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!"</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Hazael said, "But how could your servant, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a dog, do this great thing?" Elisha said, "Yahweh has shown me <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you <transChange type="added">are to be</transChange> king over Aram."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So he departed from Elisha and came to his master. He asked him, "What did Elisha say to you." So he said, "He said to me that you will certainly recover."</verse>


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<verse num="15">On the next day, he took the bed cover, dipped <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in the water, and spread <transChange type="added">it</transChange> over his face so that he died. Then Hazael became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="16">Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah.<note>This likely indicates a coregency in Judah at the time.</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="18">He walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife, and he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Yet Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as he had promised to give him a lamp for his sons always. </verse>


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<verse num="20">In his days, Edom rebelled {against the rule}<note>Literally "from under the hand"</note> of Judah, and they set up a king over them.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents.</verse>


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<verse num="22">So Edom has rebelled {against the rule}<note>Literally "from under the hand"</note> of Judah until this day; then Libnah <transChange type="added">also</transChange> rebelled at that time.</verse>


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<verse num="23">The remainder of the acts of Joram and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="24">So Joram slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and he was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son became king in place of him. </verse>


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<verse num="25">In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Joram became king of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Ahaziah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Athaliah daughter of Omri, king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="27">He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab; for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. </verse>


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<verse num="28">He went with Joram the son of Ahab for the battle against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ill. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Elisha the prophet called for one of the sons of the prophets, and he said to him, "Gird your loins, and take this flask of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Go there and look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi. Go, for you must cause him to arise from among his brothers, and you must bring him into an {inner room}.<note>Literally "inner room of the inner room"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">You must take the flask of olive oil and pour it out on his head. You must say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." ' Then you must open the door and flee; do not linger!" </verse>


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<verse num="4">So the young man, servant of the prophet, went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ramoth-Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He came, and look, the commanders of the army <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sitting <transChange type="added">there</transChange>. He said, "I have a word for you, O commander!" Jehu said, "For whom? For all of us?" And he said, "For you, O commander!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">He got up and went to the house, and poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I hereby anoint you as king over the people of Yahweh, over Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">You will destroy the house of Ahab your master, and you will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all of the servants of Yahweh, from the hand of Jezebel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off {all males}<note>Literally "the one who urinates against a wall"</note> from Ahab, both bond and free.</verse>


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<verse num="9">I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and there shall not be {anyone to bury her}.'"<note>Literally "burying"</note> Then he opened the door and fled. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk."</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then they said, "Liar. Please tell us." He said, "{Thus and so}<note>Literally "As this and as this"</note> he said to me, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." '"</verse>


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<verse num="13">So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread <transChange type="added">them</transChange> under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, "Jehu is king!" </verse>


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<verse num="14">So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram was keeping guard in Ramoth-Gilead, he and all of Israel, because of the {threat}<note>Literally "from the face/presence of"</note> of Hazael king of Aram.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But Joram the king had returned to heal in Jezreel from the wound which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, "{If this is what you want},<note>Literally "If there is your soul"</note> do not let him go out as a fugitive from the city to go to make it known in Jezreel."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying there, and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Now the watchman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu when he came, and he said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman and send <transChange type="added">him</transChange> to meet them." And he said, "Is it peace?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">So the rider of the horse went out to meet him, and he said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}?<note>Literally "What is for you and for peace"</note> Turn after me." Then the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went up to them, but he did not return."</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then he sent out a second horseman, and he came to them and said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "{What do you have to do with peace}?<note>Literally "What is for you and for peace"</note> Turn after me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So the sentinel reported, saying, "He went up to them, but he did not return, and the driving <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives with madness." </verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Joram said, "Get ready," so he got his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel went out, and Ahaziah king of Judah, each with his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.</verse>


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<verse num="22">When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, "<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> peace?" And he said, "What peace <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> while the prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are numerous?"</verse>


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<verse num="23">Joram turned his {chariot}<note>Literally "hand"</note> and fled and said to Ahaziah, "It's treason, Ahaziah!"</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Jehu {drew his bow}<note>Literally "filled his hand with the bow"</note> and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.</verse>


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<verse num="25">He said to Bidkar his third <transChange type="added">servant</transChange>, "Lift <transChange type="added">him</transChange> out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with the pair <transChange type="added">of chariots</transChange> behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him:</verse>


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<verse num="26">'"Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday," declares Yahweh, "I will requite it for you in this tract of land," declares Yahweh.' So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh." </verse>


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<verse num="27">When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." <transChange type="added">They shot him</transChange> at the ascent of Gur which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Ibleam, and he fled <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Megiddo, but he died there.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David.</verse>


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<verse num="29">In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="30">When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Now Jehu had come in the gate, so she said, "<transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> peace, O Zimri, murderer of his master?"</verse>


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<verse num="32">When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me?" Two or three eunuchs looked down to him.</verse>


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<verse num="33">So he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her.</verse>


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<verse num="34">Then he came and ate and drank, and said, "Please take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king."</verse>


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<verse num="35">When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands.</verse>


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<verse num="36">They returned and told him, and he said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.'"</verse>


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<verse num="37">So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface <transChange type="added">spread</transChange> on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Jezebel." </verse>


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<verse num="1">Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="2">"Now, when this letter comes to you and your master's sons <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you, the chariots <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you, the horses, a fortified city, and weapons,</verse>


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<verse num="3">then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place <transChange type="added">him</transChange> on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters."</verse>


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<verse num="4">But they were very afraid, and they said, "Look, two kings could not stand before him; how can we stand?"</verse>


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<verse num="5">So whoever was over the house, and whoever was over the city, and the elders and the guardians sent to Jehu, saying, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your servants; all that you say to us, we shall do. We shall not make anyone a king. Do <transChange type="added">what</transChange> is good in your eyes." </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for me, and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> listening to my voice, take the heads of the men of the sons of your master and come to me at <transChange type="added">this</transChange> time tomorrow at Jezreel." Now the sons of the king, seventy men, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with the leaders of the city who were raising them.</verse>


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<verse num="7">When the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed seventy men. Then they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," and he said, "Put them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> two piles <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gate until morning."</verse>


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<verse num="9">It happened in the morning that he went out, stood, and said to all of the people, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all of these?</verse>


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<verse num="10">Know then that {the word of Yahweh will not fail}<note>Literally "it shall not fall from the word of Yahweh to the ground"</note> which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab; Yahweh has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Jehu killed all of the remainder of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all of his leaders, his close friends, and his priests, until there was no survivor left for him. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then he arose and went and came to Samaria. On the way, he was <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Beth-Eked of the shepherds,</verse>


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<verse num="13">and Jehu met the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah. He asked, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?" They said, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the brothers of Ahaziah; we came down for the peace of the king's children and the children of the queen."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then he said, "Seize them alive!" So they seized them alive but then slaughtered them at the cistern of Beth-Eked, forty-two men. He did not allow any of them to survive. </verse>


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<verse num="15">Next he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Recab to meet him. He greeted him and asked him, "{Is your heart right with me as my heart is with you}?"<note>Literally "Is there uprightness with your heart as that of my heart with your heart"</note> Then Jehonadab said, "Yes, it is. Give your hand!" And he gave his hand and took him up to him on the chariot.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then he said, "Come with me! Look at my zeal for Yahweh!" So he let him ride in his chariot.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then he came to Samaria and killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria until he wiped them out according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to Elijah. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Jehu assembled all of the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will worship him greatly.</verse>


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<verse num="19">So then, summon to me all of the prophets of Baal and all of his servants and his priests; no man should fail to come, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come shall not live!" Now Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Jehu said, "Sanctify a <transChange type="added">solemn</transChange> assembly for Baal!" So they proclaimed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Jehu sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> through all of Israel, and all of the servants of Baal came; there did not remain a man who did not come. They came to the house of Baal so that the house of Baal was filled from {wall to wall}.<note>Literally "edge to edge"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">He said to the one who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the wardrobe, "Bring out clothing for all of the servants of Baal." So he brought the clothing out for them.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, "Search and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal."</verse>


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<verse num="24">They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, "The man who lets <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> escape from the men who I am {entrusting to you},<note>Literally "bringing upon your hand"</note> {he will pay with his life}!"<note>Literally "his life in place of his life"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="25">It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, "Come and kill them; let no man go free!" So {they put them to the sword},<note>Literally "they struck them with the edge of the sword"</note> and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal.</verse>


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<verse num="26">They brought out the stone pillars of the temple of Baal and burned {them}.<note>Literally "it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which he caused Israel to sin; <transChange type="added">namely,</transChange> the calf-shaped idols of gold which <transChange type="added">were in</transChange> Bethel and Dan.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well by doing right in my eyes and you have done to the house of Ahab according to all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in my heart; <transChange type="added">therefore,</transChange> sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="31">But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of Yahweh God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam <transChange type="added">by</transChange> which he caused Israel to sin. </verse>


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<verse num="32">In those days, Yahweh began to reduce Israel, so Hazael defeated them in every territory of Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="33">from the Jordan eastward: all of the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the Wadi Arnon and Gilead and Bashan.</verse>


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<verse num="34">Now the remainder of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all of his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds, are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="35">So Jehu slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Now the days which Jehu had reigned over Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-eight years in Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, so she prepared to destroy all of the offspring of the royal family.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, <transChange type="added">putting</transChange> him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years <transChange type="added">while</transChange> Athaliah was reigning over the land. </verse>


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<verse num="4">But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of the hundreds of the Carites and the runners, and he brought them to himself to the temple of Yahweh. Then he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of Yahweh and showed them the son of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He commanded them, saying, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the thing which you must do: one third of you {who go off duty on the Sabbath},<note>Literally "who go on the Sabbath"</note> the keepers of the guard in the house of the king,</verse>


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<verse num="6">and another third at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the runners, shall guard the post of the palace alternately.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Two of the units among you, all {who go on duty on the Sabbath},<note>Literally "the going out of the Sabbath"</note> guard the post of the temple of Yahweh for the king.</verse>


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<verse num="8">You must surround the king all about, each with his weapon in his hand; whoever comes to the ranks must be killed. Be with the king {wherever he goes}."<note>Literally "when he goes out and when he comes"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">So the commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each took his men {who went off duty on the Sabbath}<note>Literally "the coming of the Sabbath"</note> and those {who came on duty on the Sabbath},<note>Literally "the going out of the Sabbath"</note> and they came to Jehoiada the priest.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the priest gave to the commanders of the hundreds spears and small round shields which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> King David's, which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So the royal runners stood, each <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his weapons in his hand, from the side of the temple to the south up to the side of the temple on the north, around the altar and around the temple, about the king all around.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then he brought out the son of the king, put the crown on him with the testimony, and they made him king, anointed him, clapped <transChange type="added">their</transChange> hands, and said, "<transChange type="added">Long</transChange> live the king!" </verse>


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<verse num="13">When Athaliah heard the sound of the runners of the people, she came to the people at the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="14">She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters <transChange type="added">were</transChange> by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, "Treason, treason!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her <transChange type="added">should</transChange> kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="16">So {they grabbed her}<note>Literally "they put hands to her"</note> as she went <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the entranceway of the horses to the palace of the king, and she was killed there.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Jehoiada {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">also a covenant</transChange> between the king and the people.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, and its altars and its images they broke completely into pieces. Mattan the priest of Baal they killed in front of the altars. Then the priest put guards over the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="19">He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings.</verse>


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<verse num="20">All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king. </verse>


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<verse num="21"><note>2 Kings 11:21-12:21 in the English Bible is 2 Kings 12:1-22 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Jehoash <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {seven years old}<note>Literally "a son of seven years"</note> when he began to reign. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years, and the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zibiah from Beersheba.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Jehoash did right in the eyes of Yahweh all of his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Only the high places were not removed; the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places. </verse>


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<verse num="4">Jehoash said to the priests, "All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, {the money taxed at its proper value for each person}<note>Literally "money passing over a man, the money of persons his proper value"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh,</verse>


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<verse num="5">let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found." </verse>


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<verse num="6">It happened in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash that the priests had not repaired the damage in the temple.</verse>


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<verse num="7">So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and he said to them, "Why are you not repairing the damage in the temple? Now, you shall not take money from your treasurers for the damage in the temple. You must provide it."</verse>


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<verse num="8">So the priests agreed not to take money from the people and not to repair the damage to the temple. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Jehoiada the priest took a certain chest and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar to the right as a man enters into the temple of Yahweh; then the priests who were keepers of the threshold would put there all of the money brought into the temple.</verse>


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<verse num="10">It happened that when they saw a great deal of money in the chest, the secretary of the king and the high priest would come up, put the money in bags, then count the money found in the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They placed the money, <transChange type="added">which was</transChange> weighed out, into the hands of the workers who were appointed over the temple of Yahweh, and they paid <transChange type="added">it to</transChange> the skilled craftsmen of wood and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the builders working on the temple of Yahweh</verse>


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<verse num="12">and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="14">For they gave that to all the workers, and they repaired the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh with it.</verse>


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<verse num="15">They did not <transChange type="added">have to</transChange> settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dealing honestly.</verse>


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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> money of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> guilt offering and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> money of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sin offering was not brought into the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh, but were <transChange type="added">each</transChange> for the priests. </verse>


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<verse num="17">At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Jozabad<note>A number of Hebrew manuscripts read "Jozakar" here, a reading followed by many English versions. The Hebrew letters for K and B are very similar, as are the letters for R and D. Scribal error may account for the variant reading.</note> the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and killed him, so they buried him with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, <transChange type="added">reigning</transChange> seventeen years.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat with which he had caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So the {anger of Yahweh was kindled}<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael {repeatedly}.<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">Then Jehoahaz entreated Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Yahweh gave Israel a savior, and they went out from under the hand of Aram. So the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> lived in their tents as {formerly}.<note>Literally "as yesterday and the day before"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">Yet they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it; and also, the pole of the Asherah worship was <transChange type="added">still</transChange> standing in Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="7">For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did and his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds, are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Jehoahaz slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoash his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="10">In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, <transChange type="added">reigning</transChange> sixteen years.</verse>


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<verse num="11">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> walked in it.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The remainder of the acts of Joash<note>That is, the king of Israel rather than the king of Judah; "Jehoash" and "Joash" are variant spellings of one another</note> and all that he did, his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange>, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Joash slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="14">Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows," so he took him a bow and arrows.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He said to the king of Israel, "{Lay your hand on the bow},"<note>Literally "Let your hand climb upon the bow"</note> so he lay hold <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>; then Elisha put his hand on the hands of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then he said, "Open the window to the east," so he opened <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. Elisha said, "Shoot," and he shot. Then he said, "An arrow of victory for Yahweh, and an arrow of victory against Aram; you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until finishing <transChange type="added">them</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then he said, "Take the arrows," so he took <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. He said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," so he struck three times and stopped.</verse>


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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">Yet</transChange> the man of God became angry against him and said, "For striking five or six times, then you would have defeated Aram until finishing <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, but now you will defeat Aram <transChange type="added">only</transChange> three times." </verse>


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<verse num="20">Elisha died and they buried him. Now the raiding parties of Moab came {in the spring}.<note>Literally "coming year"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And it happened that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> burying a man; suddenly they saw the marauding band, so they threw the man in the grave of Elisha. <transChange type="added">As he</transChange> went <transChange type="added">in</transChange>, the man touched the bones of Elisha, and became alive and got up on his feet! </verse>


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<verse num="23">But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now. </verse>


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<verse num="25">Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah began to reign.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor;<note>Or "father"</note> as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">Only the high places were not removed; the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. </verse>


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<verse num="5">It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.</verse>


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<verse num="6">But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, "Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> sin."</verse>


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<verse num="7">He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he seized Sela in the battle, and he called its name Jokteel, until this day. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come let us meet {face-to-face}."<note>Literally "faces"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">So Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah, saying, "The thornbush which is in Lebanon sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife,' but an animal of the field which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thornbush.</verse>


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<verse num="10">You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?" </verse>


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<verse num="11">But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel went up and they met face-to-face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-Shemesh which belongs to Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-Shemesh. Then they came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim up to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits!</verse>


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<verse num="14">He also took all of the gold and silver and all the vessels found <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, as well as the {hostages};<note>Literally "sons of the pledges"</note> then he returned to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="15">Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange>, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then Jehoash slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="18">The remainder of the acts of Amaziah, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="19">They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent <transChange type="added">men</transChange> after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David.</verse>


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<verse num="21">All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.</verse>


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<verse num="22">He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="23">In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, <transChange type="added">reigning</transChange> forty-one years.</verse>


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<verse num="24">But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.</verse>


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<verse num="25">He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher.</verse>


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<verse num="26">For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Yahweh did not decree to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash. </verse>


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<verse num="28">Now the remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange>, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath of Judah to Israel, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="29">So Jeroboam slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jecoliah of Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Only he did not remove the high places; the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, <transChange type="added">while</transChange> Jotham the son of the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the house, governing the people of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="6">The remainder of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="7">So Azariah slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="8">In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.</verse>


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<verse num="9">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him in front of the people, killed him, and reigned in his place.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="11">Now the remainder of the acts of Zechariah, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="12">This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Sons of a fourth <transChange type="added">generation</transChange> shall sit for you on the throne of Israel," and it was so. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned {a full month}<note>Literally "a month of days"</note> in Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah, and he came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Samaria and struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him. Then he became king in place of him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Now the remainder of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired; look, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="16">At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because <transChange type="added">it</transChange> had not opened <transChange type="added">to him</transChange>, so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women. </verse>


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<verse num="17">In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel <transChange type="added">for</transChange> ten years in Samaria.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="18">But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart all of his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul so that his hand would be with him {to strengthen his hold on the kingdom}.<note>Literally "to strengthen the kingship in his hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all {the very rich},<note>Literally "the mighty of the wealth"</note> to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. Then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="22">So Menahem slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Pekahiah his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="23">In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria <transChange type="added">for</transChange> two years.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="24">But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, so he attacked him in Samaria in the citadel fortress of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palace of the king, with Argob and Arieh. With him <transChange type="added">also were</transChange> fifty men from the children of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="26">Now the remainder of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="27">In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria <transChange type="added">for</transChange> twenty years.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="28">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. </verse>


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<verse num="29">In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, the Gilead, the Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; then he deported them to Assyria.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he attacked and killed him. He reigned in place of him in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="31">Now the remainder of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="32">In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.</verse>


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<verse num="33">He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="34">He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father had done.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="35">Only the high places were not removed; the people still <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="36">Now the remainder of the acts of Jotham which he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="37">(Now, in those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.)</verse>


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<verse num="38">So Jotham slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David his ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> and his son Ahaz became king in his place. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="2">Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the eyes of Yahweh his God as David his ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even let his son pass through the fire according to the detestable things of the nations which Yahweh drove out from before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Rezin the king of Aram went up <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel against Jerusalem for battle, and they besieged Ahaz but were not able to {defeat}<note>Literally "fight"</note> him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove out the Judeans from Elath. The Arameans came to Elath and have lived there until this day. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="7">Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel who are rising up against me."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, and he sent a gift to the king of Assyria.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="9">So the king of Assyria listened to him and he went up to Damascus and captured it and deported them to Kir. He also killed Rezin. </verse>


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<verse num="10">So King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Damascus, and he saw the altar which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the builder's plan of the altar and the {exact model of how it had been made}.<note>Literally "and its model according to all its work"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">So Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="12">When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then he offered his burnt offerings and his grain offerings, he poured his libations and dashed the blood of his fellowship offerings against the altar.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now the bronze altar which was before Yahweh, he brought over from the front of the temple, from between <transChange type="added">his</transChange> altar and the temple of Yahweh, and he placed it at the side of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> altar to the north.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the grain offering of the evening, the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, the burnt offering of all of the people of the land, their offerings, their libations, and all of the blood of the burnt offerings, the blood of the sacrifices you must dash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire <transChange type="added">by</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the water carts and removed from upon them the basin, and the sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="18">The covering for the Sabbath which they had built in the palace and in the entrance of the king to the outside, he removed <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the temple of Yahweh because of the presence of the king of Assyria.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="19">Now the remainder of the acts of Ahaz which he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">So Ahaz slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, <transChange type="added">reigning</transChange> nine years.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="2">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Shalmaneser the king of Assyria<note>This would have been Shalmaneser V of Assyria (ruled ca. 727-722 bc)</note> came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as <transChange type="added">he had</transChange> year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him <transChange type="added">in</transChange> a house of imprisonment.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Samaria and besieged it <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three years. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="6">In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, in Habor, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the river <transChange type="added">regions</transChange> of Gozan, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the cities of the Medes.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="7">Now <transChange type="added">this</transChange> happened because the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods.</verse>


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<verse num="8">They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> which the kings of Israel had introduced.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="9">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> secretly did things which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city.</verse>


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<verse num="10">They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="12">They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing!"</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="13">Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> every seer saying, "Turn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets."</verse>


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<verse num="14">But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors<note>Or "fathers</note> who did not believe in Yahweh their God.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="15">They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and <transChange type="added">went</transChange> after all the nations which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they <transChange type="added">did</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="16">They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal.</verse>


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<verse num="17">They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="18">So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced,</verse>


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<verse num="20">so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence.</verse>


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<verse num="21">For he had torn Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, but Jeroboam detached Israel from following Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="22">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and they did not depart from it,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
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<verse num="23">until Yahweh removed Israel from his presence as he had foretold by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And so he deported Israel from upon his land to Assyria until this day. </verse>


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<verse num="24">The king of Assyria brought from Babylonia, from Cush, from Arva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in the cities of Samaria in place of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> so they took possession of Samaria and lived in her cities.</verse>


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<verse num="25">It happened that when they began living there, they did not fear Yahweh, so Yahweh sent lions among them, and they were killing them.<note>Leviticus 26:22 warns that non-belief will result in attacks from wild animals.</note></verse>


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<verse num="26">So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the customs of the God of the land, so he sent lions among them, and now they are killing them because they do not know the customs of the God of the land."</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Release one of the priests whom you deported from there, and let him go and settle there. Let him teach them the customs of the God of the land."</verse>


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<verse num="28">So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="29">Yet every nation was making their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> gods, and they put them in the shrine of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> living.</verse>


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<verse num="30">The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cush made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima.</verse>


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<verse num="31">The Arvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Those who were fearing Yahweh made priests of the high places {from among themselves},<note>Literally "for them from their ends"</note> and they were sacrificing for them in the shrines of the high places.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported. </verse>


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<verse num="34">Until this day they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing according to their former customs; none of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fearing Yahweh, and none of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing according to their statutes, to their decisions, to the law, or to the commands that Yahweh commanded the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jacob <transChange type="added">to</transChange> which he had given the name Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="35">Yahweh had {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods, nor shall you bow down to them, nor shall you serve them, nor shall you sacrifice to them.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Rather, Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt with great strength and with an outstretched arm--him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow down, and to him you shall sacrifice.</verse>


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<verse num="37">The statutes, the decisions, the law, and the commands that he wrote to you, you shall observe to do always, and you shall not fear other gods.</verse>


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<verse num="38">The covenant that I have {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods.</verse>


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<verse num="39">But Yahweh your God you shall fear, and he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies."</verse>


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<verse num="41">So these nations were fearing Yahweh, but they were serving their idols, as were their children and their children's children; as their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing until this day. </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He did right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that David his ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> had done.</verse>


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<verse num="4">He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="6">He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.</verse>


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<verse num="8">He attacked <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city. </verse>


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<verse num="9">It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that <transChange type="added">is,</transChange> the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against Samaria and laid siege against her.</verse>


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<verse num="10">At the end of three years, he captured it in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that <transChange type="added">is,</transChange> the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel; Samaria was captured.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then the king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Habor, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the river <transChange type="added">regions</transChange> of Gozan, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the cities of the Medes,</verse>


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<verse num="12">because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God, and they transgressed his covenant; all that he had commanded Moses, the servant of Yahweh, they did not listen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> nor did they obey. </verse>


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<verse num="13">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.</verse>


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<verse num="14">So Hezekiah king of Judah sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me. What you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Hezekiah gave all of the silver found <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh and in the storerooms of the house of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="16">At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh and the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria.</verse>


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<verse num="17">So the king of Assyria sent the commander in chief, the chief eunuch, and the {chief advisor}<note>Traditionally "Rabshekah"</note> from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a heavy army. They went up and came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem, then they went up and came and stood at the aqueduct of the upper pool which is on the main road of the {washer's}<note>Or "fuller's"</note> field.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then they called to the king, so Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Then the chief advisor said to them, "Please say to Hezekiah: 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this confidence that you trust?</verse>


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<verse num="20">You think only a word of lips, '<transChange type="added">I have</transChange> advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?</verse>


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<verse num="21">Now, look! You {rely}<note>Literally "trust for yourself"</note> on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which <transChange type="added">when</transChange> a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!</verse>


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<verse num="22">But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down <transChange type="added">only</transChange> in Jerusalem?'</verse>


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<verse num="23">So then, please make a wager with my lord, with the king of Assyria, and I will give to you a thousand horses {if you are able on your part to put riders on them.}<note>Literally "if you are able to give for yourself riders upon them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">How {can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master}<note>Literally "can you return the face of the governor one of the servants of my master"</note>? <transChange type="added">Yet</transChange> you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!</verse>


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<verse num="25">Have I now come up against this place without Yahweh to destroy it? Yahweh has said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it!'" '" </verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah said to the chief commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> understanding, but you must not speak Judean with us in the ears of the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the wall."</verse>


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<verse num="27">The chief commander said to them, "Is it <transChange type="added">solely</transChange> to your master and to you my master has sent me to speak these words? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not for the men who sit on the wall to eat their feces and to drink their urine with you?" </verse>


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<verse num="28">Then the chief commander stood and called with a great voice in Judean, and he spoke and said, "Hear the word of the king, the great king of Assyria!</verse>


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<verse num="29">Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my<note>Hebrew "his"</note> hand.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Do not let Hezekiah <transChange type="added">make you</transChange> trust in Yahweh, saying, "Certainly Yahweh will rescue us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!" '</verse>


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<verse num="31">Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make with me a treaty of peace and come out to me that each <transChange type="added">may</transChange> eat <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his vine and each <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his fig tree, and each <transChange type="added">may</transChange> drink water <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his cistern!</verse>


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<verse num="32">Until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees, olive oil, and honey, that <transChange type="added">you may</transChange> live and not die! You must not listen to Hezekiah, for he has misled you <transChange type="added">by</transChange> saying, "Yahweh will deliver us!"</verse>


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<verse num="33">Did the gods of each of the nations ever rescue the land from the hand of the king of Assyria?</verse>


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<verse num="34">Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? For did they rescue Samaria from my hand?</verse>


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<verse num="35">Who among all of the gods of the countries have rescued their countries from my hand that Yahweh should rescue Jerusalem from my hand?'" </verse>


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<verse num="36">The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him."</verse>


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<verse num="37">Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah <transChange type="added">with</transChange> torn clothes, and they told him the words of the chief commander. </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened that when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He sent Eliakim who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the palace, Shebna the secretary, the elders, and the priests, <transChange type="added">all</transChange> clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.</verse>


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<verse num="3">They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'A day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace is this day, for the children {are about to be born},<note>Literally "came up to the outer vagina"</note> but there is no strength to bear them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'"</verse>


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<verse num="6">and Isaiah said to them, "Thus you must say to your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You must not be afraid because the face of the words which you have heard, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '" </verse>


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<verse num="8">When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chief commander returned, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.</verse>


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<verse num="9">He heard about Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, "Look, he has set out to fight with you," so he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="10">"Thus you shall say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, 'Let not your God whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> trusting deceive you, by his saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!"</verse>


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<verse num="11">Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, by utterly destroying them, and shall you be delivered?</verse>


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<verse num="12">Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> destroyed deliver them? <transChange type="added">Not</transChange> Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, <transChange type="added">nor</transChange> the children of Eden who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Tel Assar.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'" </verse>


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<verse num="14">Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them. <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread them out before the presence of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives <transChange type="added">above</transChange> the cherubim. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have utterly destroyed the nations and their land.</verse>


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<verse num="18">He has hurled their gods in the fire because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not gods, but the work of the hands of a human <transChange type="added">made of</transChange> wood and stone, so they destroyed them.</verse>


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<verse num="19">So then, O Yahweh our God, rescue us, please, from his hand, that all of the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Yahweh, you alone are God!" </verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'What you have prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised <transChange type="added">your</transChange> voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!</verse>


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<verse num="23">By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the height of the mountains. <transChange type="added">To</transChange> the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the edge of forest of its fertile land.</verse>


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<verse num="24">I dug <transChange type="added">wells</transChange> and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'</verse>


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<verse num="25">Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Your sitting, your going out, and your coming <transChange type="added">in</transChange> I know, and your raging against me.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come.</verse>


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<verse num="29">" 'This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</verse>


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<verse num="30">The remainder of the house of Judah which survives will again <transChange type="added">take</transChange> root below and bear fruit above.</verse>


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<verse num="31">For from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of Yahweh will do this. </verse>


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<verse num="32">" 'Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, "He shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her.</verse>


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<verse num="33">By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come," declares Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.'" </verse>


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<verse num="35">It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dead corpses.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Then Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.</verse>


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<verse num="37">It happened that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer<note>So Kethib; Qere adds "his sons"</note> struck him with the sword. Then they escaped <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In those days Hezekiah became {deathly ill},<note>Literally "ill to die"</note> and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Command your house, for you <transChange type="added">are about</transChange> to die; you will not recover.'"</verse>


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<verse num="3">"O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and <transChange type="added">remember</transChange> the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah {wept bitterly}.<note>Literally "wept a great weeping"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">Isaiah had not gone out from the middle of the city when the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="5">"Return; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I <transChange type="added">am about to</transChange> heal you. On the third day you shall go up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant." '"</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">Isaiah said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps. </verse>


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<verse num="12">At that time, Berodak-Baladan the son of Baladan king of {Babylon}<note>Or "Babel." Babel was the ancient name for Babylon, the capital of Babylonia. See also Genesis 11:9</note> sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "From a far land; they have come from Babylon."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then he asked, "What did they see in your palace?" And Hezekiah said, "All that is in my palace they have seen; there is nothing that I did not show them in my treasuries." </verse>


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<verse num="17">'Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming when all that is in your palace will be carried off; <transChange type="added">even</transChange> all that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have stored up until this day, to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="18">'Your sons who went out from you, whom you brought forth, will be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babylon.'"</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good," and he thought, "Is it not that peace and security shall be in my days?"</verse>


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<verse num="20">Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange>, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Hezekiah slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Manasseh his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hephzibah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to the detestable things of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the presence of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">He returned and rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal and made a pole of Asherah worship just as Ahab king of Israel had made, and he bowed down to all of the host of heaven and served them.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">He built altars in the temple of Yahweh <transChange type="added">about</transChange> which Yahweh had said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">He built an altar to all of the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He increased the doing of evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">He put the image of the Asherah that he had made in the temple which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this temple and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">But Manasseh did not listen and tempted them to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the presence of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">"Because Manasseh the king of Judah committed these detestable things <transChange type="added">and</transChange> did evil more than the Amorites did who were before him and caused even Judah to sin with his idols,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">therefore, thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Look, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah about which the two ears of all who hear it will tingle.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">because they have done evil in my eyes and were provoking me from the day that their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> came out from Egypt up to this day.'" </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem {from one end to another},<note>Literally "end to end"</note> apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">The remainder of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he committed, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">Then Manasseh slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="21">He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="22">He abandoned Yahweh the God of his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="23">The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="24">But the people of the land killed all who conspired against the king and made Josiah his son king in his place.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="25">The remainder of the acts of Amon that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="26">They buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in place of him. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">It happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent <transChange type="added">word to</transChange> Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the secretary of the temple of Yahweh, saying,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and let them count the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">and let them give it into the hand of those appointed doers of the work at the temple of Yahweh. Let them give it to the doers of the work who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> at the temple of Yahweh to repair the breach of the temple:</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">to the skilled craftsmen, to the builders, to the masons, and to buy timber and hewing stones to repair the temple.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">Only the money being given to them is not to be accounted for by them, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dealing with honesty." </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the scroll of the Torah in the temple of Yahweh," and Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">Shaphan the secretary came to the king and returned the king a word, and he said, "Your servant poured out the money found in the temple, and they have given it into the hand of the doers of the work appointed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> the temple of Yahweh."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll." Then Shaphan read before the king. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">When the king heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Acbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">"Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and for the people and for all of Judah concerning the words of this scroll <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> found. For the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great because our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did not listen to the words of this scroll to do according to all that is written concerning us!" </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas, the keeper of the robes. Now she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living in Jerusalem in the second district. Then they spoke to her,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">and she said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Say to the man who sent you to me,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">"Thus says Yahweh, 'Look I am bringing evil to this place and upon its inhabitants, <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> all of the words of that scroll that the king of Judah has read</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">because they have abandoned me and they have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all of the works of their hands. My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.'"</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">And to the king of Judah who sent all of you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall say to him, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, '<transChange type="added">Concerning</transChange> the words that you have heard,</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">Therefore look, I am gathering you to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and you shall be gathered to your tombs in peace. Your eyes will not see all of the disaster that I am bringing onto this place.'" '" Then they {reported the word}<note>Literally "they returned a word"</note> to the king. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">So the king sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange>, and all of the elders of Judah and Jerusalem gathered to him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">Then the king went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the temple of Yahweh, and all of the men of Judah and all of the inhabitants of Jerusalem <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, <transChange type="added">including</transChange> the priests, the prophets, and all of the people from smallest to greatest; and in their {hearing}<note>Literally "ears"</note> he read all of the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been found in the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">Then the king stood by the pillar, and he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant before Yahweh, to go after Yahweh and to keep his commands and his warnings and his statutes, with all of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> heart and with his all of his soul, to keep the words of this covenant written on this scroll. Then all of the people {joined}<note>Literally "stood"</note> in the covenant. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">Then the {king}<note>That is, Josiah</note> commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the second priests, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all of the objects made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and then he carried their ashes to Bethel.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained <transChange type="added">to</transChange> burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">He brought out the Asherah image from the temple of Yahweh outside of Jerusalem to the Wadi of the Kidron and burnt it {there};<note>Literally "at the wadi of the Kidron"</note> then he pulverized <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to dust and threw its dust upon the tombs of the children of the people.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">Then he brought all of the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests from Geba up to Beersheba burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on the left of each gate of the city.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their relatives.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">He defiled the Topheth which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, {to prevent}<note>Literally "so that not"</note> anyone causing his sons or his daughters to pass through the fire for Molech.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">He kept the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from coming to the temple of Yawheh at the side room of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the court; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">The altars which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh, the king tore down and ran from there and threw their ashes into the Wadi Kidron.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">The high places which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> east of Jerusalem, which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> the king defiled.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites <transChange type="added">with</transChange> human bones. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">Moreover, the altar which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, <transChange type="added">Josiah</transChange> tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">When Josiah turned and saw the tombs which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there on the hill, he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the altar. <transChange type="added">Thus</transChange> he defiled them according to the word of Yahweh that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these things.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">Then he said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this gravestone that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> seeing?" The men of the city said to him, "<transChange type="added">This is the</transChange> tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">So Josiah said, "Let him rest and let no man move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">Moreover, all of the shrines of the high places which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the towns of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke <transChange type="added">Yahweh</transChange>, Josiah removed, and he did to them like all of the deeds he had done in Bethel.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">Then he slaughtered all of the priests of the high places who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there, on the altars, and he burned the bones of the humans on them. Then he returned <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="21">Then the king commanded all of the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as has been written on the scroll of this covenant."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="22">For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel {or}<note>Or "and"</note> <transChange type="added">during</transChange> the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="23">But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept for Yahweh in Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="24">Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and the idols, and all of the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to establish the words of the law written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="25">There was not a king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all of his heart and with all of his soul and with all of his might according to the law<note>Or "Torah"</note> of Moses, nor did one arise like him afterwards. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="26">However, Yahweh did not turn from the fierceness of his great anger which was kindled against Judah because of all of the provocations <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which Manasseh had provoked him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="27">Yahweh had said, "Even Judah I will remove from my face, as I have removed Israel; I will reject this city that I have chosen, even Jerusalem and the house <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which I said, 'My name shall be there'!" </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="28">The remainder of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="29">In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he<note>That is, Neco</note> killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="30">So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="31">Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="32">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> had done.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="33">Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="34">Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange> to Egypt, and he died there.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="35">The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; however, he taxed the land to give the silver {to meet the demands of Pharaoh}.<note>Literally "on the hunger of Pharaoh"</note> Each according to assessment, he exacted <transChange type="added">payment</transChange> of the silver and the gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Neco. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="36">Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zebudah,<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib reads "Zebidah"</note> the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="37">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> had done. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up <transChange type="added">because</transChange> Jehoiakim had become his servant <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">Surely, it was {on the command}<note>Literally "on the mouth"</note> of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">Also, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the blood of the innocent that he had shed--and he filled Jerusalem <transChange type="added">with</transChange> innocent blood--Yahweh was not willing to forgive.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">The king of Egypt did not again come out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken <transChange type="added">territory</transChange> from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city <transChange type="added">while</transChange> his servants were besieging it.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">He deported all of Jerusalem: all of the commanders, ten thousand of the skilled warriors, and the artisans; no one was left over except the poorest of the people of the land.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king, the wives of the king, his court officials, and the citizenry of the land he caused to go into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">of all of the skilled men, seven thousand, and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the skilled craftsmen and the artisans, one thousand. All of the mighty warriors {fit for war}<note>Literally "doers of war"</note> the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place and changed his name <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Zedekiah. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh <transChange type="added">just</transChange> like all that Jehoiakim had done.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">For it happened because of the anger of Yahweh, in Jerusalem and in Judah, until they were cast out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war <transChange type="added">entered</transChange> by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans <transChange type="added">were</transChange> against the city all around, so he<note>That is, Zedekiah</note> left by the way of the Arabah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and {they passed sentence on him}.<note>Literally "they spoke justice with him"</note></verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Babylon. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">He and all the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Chaldeans who <transChange type="added">were with</transChange> the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">The bronze pillars which <transChange type="added">were in</transChange> the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the gold and whatever was silver, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the silver.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">The height of the one pillar <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital <transChange type="added">being</transChange> three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">From the city he took one court official who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> chief officer over the men of war, five men {from the king's council}<note>Literally "from those who saw the face of the king"</note> who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="21">Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="22">Now <transChange type="added">as far as</transChange> the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="23">When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="24">Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, "You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you."</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="25">But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="26">Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans. </verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="27">It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="28">He spoke {kindly}<note>Literally "good things"</note> to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="29">So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.</verse>


book: 2Kgs
content:
<verse num="30">His allowance was continually given to him from the king, {a portion every day}<note>Literally "a thing of day on his day"</note> all the days of his life. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whence the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorim.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">And two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Joktan.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="29">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="31">Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Ishmael.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="32">And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="33">And the sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Keturah. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="36">The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi,<note>Spelled "Zepho" in Genesis 36:11</note> Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="38">And the sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="39">And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and the sister of Lotan <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Timna.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="40">The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="41">The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="42">The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="43">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the {Israelites}:<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Dinhabah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="45">When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="46">When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "Avuth"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="50">When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place, and the name of his city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Pai.<note>Spelled "Pau" in Genesis 36:39</note> And the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="54">Magdiel, and Iram. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of Edom. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="3">The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; <transChange type="added">these</transChange> three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah to him. The sons of Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> five in all. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in the matter of the devoted thing.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">And their sisters <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jether the Ishmaelite. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="18">And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">And when Azubah died, Caleb married<note>Or "took"</note> Ephrathah, and she bore Hur to him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. And he married<note>Or "took"</note> her when he was sixty years old. And she bore Segub to him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the {descendants}<note>Literally "sons"</note> of Makir, the father of Gilead.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="24">And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="25">And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="26">And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Atarah. She <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the mother of Onam.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="28">And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Nadab and Abishur.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="29">And the name of the wife of Abishur <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="30">And the sons of Nadab <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Seled and Appaim. And Seled died without children.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="31">And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="32">And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died without children.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="33">And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the children of Jerahmeel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="34">And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, and his name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jarha.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="35">So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his slave for a wife, and she bore to him Attai.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="42">And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn; he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="43">And the sons of Hebron <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="44">And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="45">And the son of Shammai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maon, and Maon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Beth-Zur.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="46">And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="47">And the sons of Jahdai <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="49">She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Acsah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="51">Salma the father of Bethlehem, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Hareph the father of Beth-Gader.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="52">And Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim had <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="53">And the families of Kiriath-Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="54">The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="55">And the families of the scribes who lived <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite;</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith;</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">Six were born to him in Hebron. And he reigned there seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="5">And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel;</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines. And Tamar was their sister. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">Now the son of Solomon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Rehoboam; Abijah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Asa <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Jehoshaphat <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">Joram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Ahaziah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Joash <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">Amaziah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Azariah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Jotham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">Ahaz <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Hezekiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Manasseh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">Amon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Josiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And the sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">And the {descendants}<note>Literally "sons"</note> of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah. The sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="24">And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the clans of the Zorathites.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="3">And these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hazzelelponi,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">and Penuel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Gedor, and Ezer <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Hushah. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Naarah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!" And God granted what he asked.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Eshton.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the men of Recah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, because they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> craftsmen.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="18">And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="20">The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tolon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea;</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. (Now the records are ancient).</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="27">Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="31">Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their cities until David reigned.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="32">And their villages <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, five cities</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="33">and all their villages that surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="37">and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="38">These {mentioned by name}<note>Literally "coming in the names"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> leaders in their families, and their fathers' households increased greatly.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="39">And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="40">And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> from Ham.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="41">These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> pasture there for their flocks.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="42">And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under their leadership.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="43">And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief <transChange type="added">came</transChange> from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph).</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">Beerah his son, a leader of the Reubenites, whom Tiglath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported into exile.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">And his kinsmen by their families, when their generations were recorded in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> genealogy: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="8">and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert {this side of}<note>Or "from"</note> the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they<note>That is, the Hagrites</note> fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And their kinsmen according to their fathers' households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.</verse>


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<verse num="14">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> chief in their fathers' households.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in {its towns},<note>Literally "her daughters"</note> and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.</verse>


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<verse num="17">All of them were enrolled in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> genealogy in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="18">The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh <transChange type="added">had</transChange> {valiant}<note>Literally "sons of strength"</note> men <transChange type="added">who</transChange> carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty <transChange type="added">for</transChange> going out <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an army.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And they captured their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels; two hundred and fifty thousand sheep; two thousand donkeys; and one hundred thousand men alive.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For many <transChange type="added">were</transChange> slain because the war was of God. And they lived under them until the exile. </verse>


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<verse num="23">And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> numerous.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Now these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of their fathers' households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, {famous men},<note>Literally "men of the name"</note> heads of their fathers' households.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.</verse>


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<verse num="26">So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them <transChange type="added">into exile</transChange>, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day. </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>1 Chronicles 6:1-81 in the English Bible is 5:27-6:66 in the Hebrew Bible</note> The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.</verse>


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<verse num="3">The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.</verse>


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<verse num="10">and Johanan fathered Azariah. <transChange type="added">It was</transChange> he who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Jehozadak went into exile <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Yahweh <transChange type="added">sent</transChange> Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.</verse>


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<verse num="19">The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the families of the Levites according to their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">The sons of Samuel: <transChange type="added">Joel</transChange><note>"Joel" is from 1 Samuel 8:2, the parallel to this genealogy. The name has dropped out of the text here</note> his firstborn and Abijah the second.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Now these <transChange type="added">are the men</transChange> whom David appointed for {control of singing}<note>Literally "to the hands of song"</note> in the house of Yahweh where the ark rested.</verse>


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<verse num="32">They were ministering with song before the tabernacle of the tent of assembly<note>Or "meeting"</note> until Solomon built the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their order with respect to their duty.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> those who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, son of Samuel,</verse>


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<verse num="39">and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right <transChange type="added">namely</transChange>, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,</verse>


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<verse num="44">On the left <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,</verse>


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<verse num="48">And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="49">But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. </verse>


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<verse num="50">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,</verse>


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<verse num="54">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their dwellings according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for the <transChange type="added">first</transChange> lot <transChange type="added">was</transChange> theirs,</verse>


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<verse num="55">and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="56">but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.</verse>


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<verse num="57">To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="60">And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thirteen cities throughout their clans.</verse>


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<verse num="61">To the Kohathites who remained from the family of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, <transChange type="added">were given</transChange> by lot ten cities.</verse>


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<verse num="62">To the Gershomites according to their clans thirteen cities <transChange type="added">were allotted</transChange> out of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.</verse>


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<verse num="63">To the Merarites twelve cities <transChange type="added">were</transChange> allotted according to their clans out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.</verse>


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<verse num="64">So the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.</verse>


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<verse num="65">And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.</verse>


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<verse num="66">And of the clans of the sons of Kohath were cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.</verse>


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<verse num="67">And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="70">And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands for the remaining the clans of the Kohathites.</verse>


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<verse num="71">To the Gershomites <transChange type="added">were given</transChange> out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands.</verse>


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<verse num="72">And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="74">And out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="76">And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.</verse>


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<verse num="77">To the remainder of the Merarites <transChange type="added">were allotted</transChange> out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands.</verse>


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<verse num="78">And beyond the Jordan <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="80">And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,</verse>


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<verse num="2">The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-two thousand six hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="3">The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> chiefs.<note>Or "heads"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For {they had}<note>Literally "there were"</note> many wives and sons.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy. </verse>


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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The sons of</transChange> Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heads of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-two thousand thirty-four.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Beker.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty thousand two hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="10">The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.</verse>


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<verse num="11">All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, {able to go to war}.<note>Literally "going out to the army to the war"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And Shuppim and Huppim <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of Aher. </verse>


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<verse num="13">The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the {descendants}<note>Literally "sons"</note> of Bilhah. </verse>


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<verse num="14">The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. And the name of his sister <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maacah. And the name of the second, Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sheresh, and his sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Ulam and Rekem.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Gilead the son of Makir, son of Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,</verse>


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<verse num="21">Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them because they came down to take their livestock.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster <transChange type="added">had been</transChange> upon his house.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And his daughter <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sheerah, and she built Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-Sheerah.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Rephah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,</verse>


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<verse num="28">And their property and their dwellings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Bethel and {its towns}.<note>Literally "her daughters," here and below</note> And to the east, Naaran. And to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, up to Aija and its towns.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="31">The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Birzayith.<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Japhlet.</verse>


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<verse num="40">All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen mighty warriors, heads of the princes. And their number enrolled by genealogy, in the army for the war, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-six thousand men. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,</verse>


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<verse num="6">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath):</verse>


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<verse num="7">Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who took them away. And he fathered Uzza and Ahihud.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Shaharaim fathered <transChange type="added">children</transChange> in the fields of Moab after he had sent them away--Hushim and Baara, his wives.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Jeuz, Sakia, and Mirmah. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> his sons, heads of the {families}.<note>Literally "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (he built Ono and Lod with {its towns}),<note>Literally "her daughters"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">and Beriah and Shema who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the inhabitants of Aijalon (they themselves chased away the inhabitants of Gath).</verse>


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<verse num="16">Michael, Ishpah, and Joha <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sons of Beriah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Elpaal.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Shimei.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Iphdeiah, and Peniel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Shashak.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zikri <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Jeroham.</verse>


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<verse num="28">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And <transChange type="added">Jeiel</transChange><note>The name Jeiel comes from 1 Chronicles 9:35; it has dropped out of the text here</note> the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maacah.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And his firstborn son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,</verse>


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<verse num="32">and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And the son of Jonathan <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza.</verse>


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<verse num="37">And Moza fathered Binea; Raphah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And Azel had six sons, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Azel.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And the sons of Ulam were men <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> mighty warriors, bowmen, and <transChange type="added">they had</transChange> many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites. </verse>


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<verse num="1">So all Israel was enrolled in genealogy. And behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away to Babylon on account of their sin.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now the first inhabitants who <transChange type="added">were settled</transChange> on their property in their cities <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:</verse>


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<verse num="4">Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani,<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> from the sons of Perez,<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> the son of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And from the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And from the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah;</verse>


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<verse num="8">Ibneah the son of Jeroham; Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri; Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;</verse>


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<verse num="9">and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> in the house of their fathers. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the commander of the house of God;</verse>


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<verse num="12">Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;</verse>


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<verse num="13">and their kinsmen, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred and sixty mighty men <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the work of the service of the house of God. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari;</verse>


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<verse num="15">Bakbakkar; Heresh; Galal; Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zicri, son of Asaph;</verse>


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<verse num="16">Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite. </verse>


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<verse num="17">And the gatekeepers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the chief);</verse>


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<verse num="18">until then they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east <transChange type="added">side</transChange> toward the camps of the Levites.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them {in time past};<note>Or "before"</note> Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> gatekeeper at the doorway to the tent of assembly.<note>Or "meeting"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">All of them were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances, two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> established <transChange type="added">by</transChange> David and Samuel the seer on account of their faithfulness.</verse>


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<verse num="23">So they and their sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards.</verse>


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<verse num="24">The gatekeepers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on four sides: east, west, north, and south.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And their brethren in their villages <transChange type="added">were</transChange> to come <transChange type="added">every</transChange> seven days {by turn}<note>Literally "from time to time"</note> <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> with these.</verse>


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<verse num="26">For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Levites, {were entrusted}<note>Literally "they in their faithfulness"</note> and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a responsibility. And {they had charge of opening <transChange type="added">the house of God</transChange> every morning}.<note>Literally "they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the key and to morning to morning"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="28">And some of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the utensils of the service, for {they count them}<note>Literally "in number"</note> <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they are brought in and {they count them}<note>Literally "in number"</note> <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they are brought out.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And some of them were appointed over the objects, over the objects of the sanctuary, and over the wheat flour and the wine, the olive oil, the frankincense, and the spices.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And some of the sons of the priests mixed the fragrant ointment for the spices.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite and {was entrusted}<note>Literally "in faithfulness"</note> with the work of the pan breads.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And from the sons of the Kohathites, some of their kinsmen <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the {showbread}<note>Literally "bread of the rows"</note> to prepare <transChange type="added">it</transChange> {every Sabbath}.<note>Literally "Sabbath Sabbath"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="33">Now these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the singers; the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the Levites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the chambers free from other service, for day and night <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> over them on the service.</verse>


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<verse num="34">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="35">And <transChange type="added">these</transChange> lived in Gibeon: Jeiel the father of Gibeon. And the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maacah.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And Mikloth fathered Shimeam. And they also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And the son of Jonathan <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Meribaal. And Meribaal fathered Micah.</verse>


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<verse num="41">And the sons of Micah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, <transChange type="added">and Ahaz.</transChange><note>The name is drawn from 1 Chronicles 8:35; it has dropped out of the text here</note></verse>


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<verse num="42">And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza,</verse>


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<verse num="43">and Moza fathered Binea; and Rephaiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.</verse>


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<verse num="44">And Azel had six sons, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Azel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and every Israelite fled away from before the Philistines. And they fell slain upon Mount Gilboa.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And the Philistines {overtook}<note>Literally "caught up behind"</note> Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the battle was heavy against Saul, and the {archers}<note>Literally "shooters with the bow"</note> found him, and he was wounded by the {archers}.<note>Literally "shooters"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and deal harshly with me." But he was very afraid. Then Saul took the sword and fell upon it.</verse>


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<verse num="5">When his armor-bearer saw that Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, he also fell upon the sword, and he died.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And when all the men of Israel who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the valley saw that they<note>That is, the army</note> had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and dwelled in them.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> throughout the land of the Philistines to bring news to their idols and the nation.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon.</verse>


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<verse num="12">every strong man arose and took the dead body of Saul and the dead bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.</verse>


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<verse num="13">So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek <transChange type="added">guidance</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, "Look--we are your flesh and bones.</verse>


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<verse num="2">{For some time now},<note>Literally "also yesterday also in the past"</note> even when Saul was king, you were {the one who led the army of Israel in battle}.<note>Literally "the one who went out and brought in Israel"</note> And Yahweh your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel and will be leader over my people Israel.'"</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh. And they anointed David as king over Israel according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Samuel.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Jebus). And the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not enter here." But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that <transChange type="added">is,</transChange> the city of David.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he built the city all around from the Millo and up to the circuit. And Joab restored the remainder of the city.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And David {became greater and greater}.<note>Literally "increased certainly and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> greatness"</note> And Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of the mighty men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for David, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel to make him king according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the numbering of the mighty warriors who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for David: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni <transChange type="added">was</transChange> chief of the three. He himself raised his spear against three hundred <transChange type="added">whom he</transChange> killed on one occasion. </verse>


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<verse num="12">And after him <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> among the three mighty warriors.</verse>


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<verse num="13">He himself <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with David at Pas-Dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for the battle. And there was a plot of the field filled with barley, and the people fled before the Philistines.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and defended it. And they killed the Philistines. And Yahweh saved <transChange type="added">them</transChange> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great victory. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And three of the thirty chiefs went down toward the rock to David at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines <transChange type="added">was</transChange> then in Bethlehem.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And David had a craving, and he said, "Who could give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> by the gate!"</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then the three broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> by the gate and brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and came to David. But David would not drink it and poured it out before Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he said, "Far be it from me <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For {at the risk of their lives}<note>Literally "against their lives"</note> they brought it." And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did. </verse>


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<verse num="20">Now Abishai the brother of Joab was himself the head of the three.<note>Other manuscripts have "thirty" which makes better sense in the context</note> And he roused himself with his spear against three hundred <transChange type="added">whom he</transChange> killed and <transChange type="added">made</transChange> a name for himself<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> among the three.</verse>


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<verse num="21">{He was twice as renowned}<note>Literally "he was glorified double"</note> among the three<note>Other manuscripts have "thirty," which makes better sense in the context</note> and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three.</verse>


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<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">And</transChange> Benaiah the son of Jehoiada <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {a strong man}<note>Literally "a son of a strong man"</note> from Kabzeel, <transChange type="added">one who did</transChange> great deeds. He himself struck down two <transChange type="added">sons of</transChange> Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he himself struck down an Egyptian man, a large man five cubits <transChange type="added">tall</transChange>. And in the hand of the Egyptian <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a spear like a weaver's beam. But he went down to him with a club and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.</verse>


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<verse num="24">These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did and had a name among the three mighty warriors.</verse>


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<verse num="25">He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard. </verse>


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<verse num="26">Now the mighty warriors of the troops <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem,</verse>


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<verse num="31">Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,</verse>


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<verse num="39">Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the bearer of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah,</verse>


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<verse num="42">Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,</verse>


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<verse num="46">Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite,</verse>


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<verse num="1">Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because {of Saul},<note>Literally "of the face of Saul"</note> the son of Kish. And they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the mighty warriors helping <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the war.</verse>


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<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">They were</transChange> armed with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow, <transChange type="added">able to shoot</transChange> right-handed or left-handed, <transChange type="added">slinging</transChange> stones or <transChange type="added">shooting</transChange> arrows with the bow; <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> kinsmen of Saul from Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="3">The leader <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ahiezer, then Jehoash, sons of Shemaah the Gibeonite; Jeiel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;</verse>


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<verse num="4">Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the thirty <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> over the thirty;<note>1 Chronicles 12:5 begins here in the Hebrew Bible</note> Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;</verse>


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<verse num="5"><note>1 Chronicles 12:5-40 in the English Bible is 12:6-41 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Hariphite;</verse>


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<verse num="8">And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war},<note>Literally "men of battle for the war"</note> expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions}<note>Literally "faces of a lion <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their faces"</note> <transChange type="added">and were</transChange> swift as gazelles upon the mountains.</verse>


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<verse num="14">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="15">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all <transChange type="added">who were in</transChange> the valley to the east and to the west. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And some of the sons of Benjamin and <transChange type="added">from</transChange> Judah came to the fortress, to David.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And David went out {to meet them}<note>Literally "before them"</note> and answered and said to them, "If you come in peace to me, to help me, {my heart will be joined with you},<note>Literally "the heart will be to me to you together"</note> but if <transChange type="added">you come</transChange> to betray me to my adversaries, although <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the thirty <transChange type="added">who said</transChange>: </verse>


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<verse num="19">And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at <transChange type="added">the cost of</transChange> our heads."</verse>


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<verse num="20">When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army.</verse>


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<verse num="22">{Day in and day out}<note>Literally "for to the time of day to the day"</note> they came to David to help him until <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a great army, like the army of God. </verse>


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<verse num="23">And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="24">The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred armed troops.</verse>


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<verse num="25">From the men of Simeon, mighty warriors of strength for war: seven thousand one hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Jehoiada the chief officer of <transChange type="added">the house of</transChange> Aaron, and with him, three thousand seven hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders.</verse>


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<verse num="29">From the men of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, and {even still}<note>Literally "and even they"</note> the majority of them {remained loyal}<note>Literally "keeping the responsibility"</note> to the house of Saul.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand who were designated by name to come to make David king.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And from the men of Issachar: {men who were skilled in understanding the times}<note>Literally "men who knew the understanding of the times"</note> to know what Israel should do. Their chiefs <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred, and all their kinsmen <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under their command.</verse>


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<verse num="33">From Zebulun, those who went out armed, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war: fifty thousand to help David {with singleness of purpose}.<note>Literally "with not heart and heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="34">From Naphtali: one thousand commanders; and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> with them with shield and spear: thirty-seven thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="35">From the Danites, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> equipped for battle: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And from Asher, those who went out armed <transChange type="added">and</transChange> prepared for battle: forty thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="37">And from beyond the Jordan, from the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all <transChange type="added">their</transChange> weapons of war for battle: one hundred and twenty thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="38">All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> men of war arrayed in battle line {with a whole heart}.<note>Literally "with heart well"</note> They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel <transChange type="added">had</transChange> one heart to make David king.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And also their relatives, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen--provisions of flour, cakes of figs, raisin cakes, wine and oil, cattle and sheep in abundance, for <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> great joy in Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And David consulted with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, with every leader.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "{If it seems good to you}<note>Literally "If to you good"</note> and before Yahweh our God, {let us send word abroad}<note>Literally "let us spread out, let us send"</note> to our brothers who remain in all the land of Israel and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the priests and Levites with them in the cities with their pasturelands that they might be gathered to us.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then let us bring around the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And all the assembly agreed to do so, for the word was pleasing in the eyes of all the people. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And David summoned all Israel from Shihor of Egypt up to Lebo-Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, Kiriath-Jearim of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of Yahweh God <transChange type="added">who</transChange> is enthroned <transChange type="added">between</transChange> the cherubim, which is called the name.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio were driving the cart. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all <transChange type="added">their</transChange> strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And when they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark because the cattle had stumbled.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Yahweh {was angry}<note>Literally "nostrils became hot"</note> with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And David {was angry}<note>Literally "it was hot"</note> because Yahweh had broken out in wrath against Uzza. And that place is called Perez Uzza unto this day.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And David feared God on that day, saying, "How can I bring the ark of God <transChange type="added">home</transChange> to me?"</verse>


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<verse num="13">So David did not move the ark to himself into the city of David but diverted it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And Yahweh blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that he had. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees, {masons},<note>Literally "craftsmen of the wall"</note> and {carpenters}<note>Literally "craftsmen of wood"</note> to build a house for him.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And David knew that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel <transChange type="added">and</transChange> that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the children who were <transChange type="added">born</transChange> to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,</verse>


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<verse num="8">When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard and went out from before them.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you put them into my hand?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up. I will put them into your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="11">And he went up to Baal-Perazim, and David struck them there. And David said, "God has burst out against my enemies by my hand like waters burst out." Therefore they will call the name of this place Baal-Perazim.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they abandoned their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burnt with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then the Philistines {carried out another raid}<note>Literally "they added again and made a raid"</note> in the valley.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then David inquired again of God. And God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Go around from before them and come against them the opposite <transChange type="added">way</transChange> of the balsam trees.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And it shall be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out into battle, for God goes out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And David did as God commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the fame of David went out through all the lands. And Yahweh put the fear of him upon all the nations. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="2">Then David ordered <transChange type="added">that</transChange> none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="3">And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief and one hundred and thirty of his brothers.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="8">Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief and one hundred and twelve of his brothers.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="11">Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="12">And he said to them, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brothers and bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to <transChange type="added">the place</transChange> I have established for it.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="13">Because the first time you did not, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law."</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">Then the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God according to what Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh, on their shoulders with the carrying poles upon them. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="16">Then David ordered the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers <transChange type="added">as</transChange> singers with instruments of song, musical instruments, stringed instruments, and cymbals, {raising their voices for joy}.<note>Literally "causing to hear to the mountains with a sound of rejoicing"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="17">So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, and from the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="18">and with them their brothers <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the second <transChange type="added">rank</transChange>, Zechariah the son, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-Edom and Jeiel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="19">Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> to sound bronze cymbals;</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="20">Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah <transChange type="added">were to play</transChange> on harps according to Alamoth;</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="21">and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah <transChange type="added">were to play</transChange> lyres, directing according to the Sheminith.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="22">And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in singing, <transChange type="added">was to be</transChange> an instructor in singing because he understood.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">And Berekiah and Elkanah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gatekeepers for the ark.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="24">And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Elizezer the priests {sounded the trumpets}<note>Literally "trumpet blowers with trumpets"</note> before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gatekeepers for the ark. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="25">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="26">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when God helped the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="27">Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen; so also all the Levites who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah the chief of the singing. And David wore a linen ephod.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="28">And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar,<note>Or "horn, trumpet"</note> and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="29">And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the city of David, then Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window and saw the king, David, leaping and dancing. And she despised him in her heart. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="1">And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="2">And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="3">And he distributed to every man of Israel, both men and women, to each <transChange type="added">person</transChange> a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="4">Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of Yahweh, to invoke, thank, and praise Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="5">Asaph <transChange type="added">was</transChange> chief, and his second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zechariah; Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on harps and lyres. And Asaph played on the cymbals.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="6">And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests <transChange type="added">blew</transChange> on the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="7">Then on that day David first appointed to give thanks to Yahweh by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="8">Give thanks to Yahweh; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations!</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="12">Remember his wonderful works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="14">He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh our God; his judgments <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in all the earth.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="15">Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="16">that he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with Abraham, his sworn oath to Isaac.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="17">And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, an everlasting covenant to Israel,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="18">saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance."</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="19">When you were few in number, little, and sojourners <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="20">when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="21">he did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">saying,</transChange> "You must not touch my anointed nor do harm to my prophets!"</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="25">For Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great and greatly praised, and he is feared among all gods.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="26">For all the gods of the nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="27">Splendor and majesty <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before him; strength and joy <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in his place.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="28">Ascribe to Yahweh, O clans of the nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="29">Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of his name! Lift up an offering and come before him! Bow down to Yahweh in the splendor of holiness!</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="31">Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, and let them tell the peoples, "Yahweh reigns!"</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="32">Let the sea roar and its fullness; let the field rejoice and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="33">Then the trees of the forest shall sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="34">Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good; his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="35">Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations that <transChange type="added">we may</transChange> give thanks to your holy name <transChange type="added">and</transChange> glory in your praise.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="37">So he<note>That is, David</note> left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to minister before the ark regularly {as each day required},<note>Literally "according to the word of a day with respect to its day"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="38">and <transChange type="added">he left</transChange> Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gatekeepers.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="39">And <transChange type="added">he left</transChange> Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Gibeon</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="40">to offer burnt offerings regularly to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the law of Yahweh that he commanded concerning Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="41">And with them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of those chosen, who were designated by name to give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="42">And Heman and Jeduthun with them <transChange type="added">had</transChange> trumpets and cymbals for making music, along with instruments for the song of God. And the sons of Jeduthun <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the gate.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="43">Then all the people went each to his house, and David turned to bless his household. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> under tent curtains."</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="2">And Nathan said to David, "Whatever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your heart, do, for God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you." </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">"Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not to build a house for me to live <transChange type="added">in</transChange>,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="5">for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle <transChange type="added">to tabernacle</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">In every <transChange type="added">place</transChange> I have moved about, did I say one word <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" '</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="8">and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="9">And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them,<note>Or "him" (i.e., the nation)</note> and they<note>Or "he"</note> shall dwell in their<note>Or "his"</note> place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="10">from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue your enemies, and I declare to you <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh will build for you a house.<note>Or "household" (that is, a dynasty)</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="11">And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go <transChange type="added">and sleep</transChange> with your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="12">He himself will build for me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="13">I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="14">And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever." '"</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">According to all these words and according to all this revelation, thus did Nathan speak to David. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="16">Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I, O Yahweh God, and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my house that you have brought me thus far?</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="17">And this was a small <transChange type="added">matter</transChange> in your eyes, O God. And you have spoken concerning the house of your servant for a long <transChange type="added">time</transChange> and have shown me {future generations to come},<note>Literally "with a turn of humankind ascending"</note> O Yahweh God.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="18">{What more}<note>Literally "What to add again"</note> can David <transChange type="added">do</transChange> to you for honoring your servant? Now you know your servant.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="19">O Yahweh, for the sake of your servant and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make known all <transChange type="added">these</transChange> great things.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="20">O Yahweh, there is none like you, and there is no God except you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="21">And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like your people Israel, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself, to establish for you a reputation<note>Or "name"</note> for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="22">And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="23">So now, O Yahweh, let the word that you spoke to your servant and to his house be established forever, that you might do what you have spoken.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="24">And let your name be established and be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God, and may the house of David your servant be established before you.'</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="25">For you, my God, {have informed}<note>Literally "have opened the ear of"</note> your servant <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you will build a house for him. Therefore, your servant has found <transChange type="added">courage</transChange> to pray before you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="26">So now, O Yahweh, you yourself <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God, and you have spoken to your servant this good thing.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="27">And now may you begin to bless the house of your servant {to continue forever}<note>Literally "to be forever"</note> before you, for you, O Yahweh, have blessed. And it will be blessed forever." </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after David struck the Philistines and subdued them, he captured Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="2">And he struck Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bearing tribute.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="3">And David struck Hadadezer, king of Zobah-Hamath, as he set up his monument at the Euphrates River.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="4">And David captured from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left one hundred of them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> remain <transChange type="added">for</transChange> chariots.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="5">And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of Aram.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="6">Then David set up <transChange type="added">garrisons</transChange> in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bearing tribute. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="7">And David took small round shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadadezer and brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="8">And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David captured very much bronze. Solomon made the bronze sea with it along with the columns and objects of bronze. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="9">And when Tou the king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer the king of Zobah,</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="10">he sent Hadoram his son to King David to ask him for peace and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Tou {had been at war}<note>Literally "a man of battles"</note> with Hadadezer. And <transChange type="added">he brought with him</transChange> all the objects of gold, silver, and bronze.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="11">King David dedicated these also to Yahweh, along with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="12">And Abishai son of Zeruiah defeated eighteen thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And he put garrisons in Edom, and all Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="14">So David reigned over all Israel, and {he administered justice}<note>Literally "he was a doer of justice"</note> and righteousness to all his people.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And Joab son of Zeruiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the army, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> recorder.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="16">And Zadok son of Ahitub and Abimelech son of Abiathar <transChange type="added">were</transChange> priests, and Shavsha <transChange type="added">was</transChange> secretary.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="17">And Benaiah son of Jehoiada <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the Kerethites and the Pelethites. And the sons of David <transChange type="added">were</transChange> chief officials under the hand of the king. </verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after this Nahash the king of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> died, and his son reigned in his place.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> to Hanun, to comfort him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="3">But the princes of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> said to Hanun, "{Do you think}<note>Literally "In your eyes"</note> because David sent comforters to you <transChange type="added">that</transChange> David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?"</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="4">So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="5">And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, "Dwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return." </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">And when the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> saw that they made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> sent one thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves horses and chariots from Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah, and Zobah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">And they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah and his people, and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> were gathered from their cities and came to the battle.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">And the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> went out and took up positions for battle at the entrance of the city. And the kings who had come <transChange type="added">were</transChange> alone in the field. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">When Joab saw that <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> {a battle line}<note>Literally "the face of the battle"</note> against him at the front and the back, he chose from among the chosen <transChange type="added">men</transChange> in Israel and arranged <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to meet Aram.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="11">And the remainder of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they were arranged to meet the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">And he said, "If Aram is too strong for me, then you must be a help to me, but if the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> are too strong for you, then I will help you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">Be strong! Let us strengthen ourselves on behalf of our people and on behalf of the cities of our God. And may Yahweh do <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> good in his eyes."</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">And Joab and the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And when the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> saw that Aram had fled, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and they came to the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">And when Aram saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers and brought out Aram, who <transChange type="added">was from</transChange> beyond the Euphrates,<note>Or "the river"</note> with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer before them.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. And he came to them and was arrayed against them. Then David was arrayed to meet Aram in battle, and they fought with him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="18">And Aram fled before Israel. And David killed from Aram <transChange type="added">the men of</transChange> seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers, and he put to death Shophach the commander of the army.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David and became servants to him. So Aram was no longer willing to help the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {in the spring time of year},<note>Literally "at the time of the returning of the year"</note> the time <transChange type="added">when</transChange> kings go out <transChange type="added">to battle</transChange>, Joab led the troops of the army and destroyed the land of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> And he came and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold. And in it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a precious stone. Then it was <transChange type="added">placed</transChange> upon the head of David. And he brought out the booty of the city, a large amount.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it he brought out, and {he set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes}.<note>The translation comes from 2 Samuel 12:31 since the Hebrew text here is uncertain</note> Thus David did to all the cities of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons of Ammon"</note> Then David returned, and all the nation <transChange type="added">went</transChange> with him. </verse>


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<verse num="4">And after this there arose a war in Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they were subdued.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like a weaver's beam.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And again there was war in Gath. And there was a {very tall}<note>Literally "measured"</note> man <transChange type="added">there</transChange>, and {he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all}.<note>Literally "and his fingers, six and six, twenty-four"</note> He himself <transChange type="added">was</transChange> also a descendant of the Rephaim.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he taunted Israel, but Jehonathan son of Shimea, brother of David, struck him down.</verse>


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<verse num="8">These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Satan<note>Or "<transChange type="added">an</transChange> accuser," or "<transChange type="added">an</transChange> adversary"</note> stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="2">So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the nation, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan and bring a report to me that I might know their number."</verse>


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<verse num="3">But Joab said, "May Yahweh add to the people a hundred times what they are! Are they not, O my lord the king, all of them the king's servants? Why does my lord seek this? Why would he bring guilt to Israel?"</verse>


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<verse num="4">But the word of the king prevailed over Joab. Then he went about through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Joab gave the number of the enrollment of the people to David. And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> all Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one million one hundred thousand men drawing a sword, and in Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing a sword.</verse>


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<verse num="6">But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the word of the king was repulsive to Joab. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely <transChange type="added">in</transChange> that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish."</verse>


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<verse num="10">"Go, you must speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Three <transChange type="added">choices</transChange> I offer to you. Choose one of them for yourself that I will do to you." '"</verse>


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<verse num="11">So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Choose for yourself:</verse>


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<verse num="12">whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to my sender."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then David said to Gad, "{I am very troubled}.<note>Literally "Great trouble to me"</note> Let me into the hand of Yahweh, for his compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of a man." </verse>


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<verse num="14">So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as <transChange type="added">he was about</transChange> to destroy <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, Yahweh saw and was grieved on account of the calamity. Then he said to the angel, the destroyer, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> enough; slacken your hand." And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then David said to God, "Was it not I <transChange type="added">who</transChange> gave a command to count the people? Now I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> he who has sinned, and I have certainly done wickedness, but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh, my God, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but against your people, <transChange type="added">let there be</transChange> no plague." </verse>


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<verse num="18">Now the angel of Yahweh had spoken to Gad to say to David that David should go up <transChange type="added">and</transChange> erect an altar for Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="19">So David went up at the word of Gad that he had spoken in the name of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and they bowed down to David, faces to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then David said to Ornan, "Please give me the place, the threshing floor, that I might build an altar on it to Yahweh; at full price please give it to me, that the plague against the people might be stopped."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Ornan said to David, "Take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to yourself; let my lord the king do what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in his eyes. See, I give the cattle for the burnt offerings and threshing sledges for the wood and wheat for the grain offering--I give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> all."</verse>


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<verse num="24">But King David said to Ornan, "No, for I will certainly buy <transChange type="added">it</transChange> at full value; indeed, I will not take what is yours for Yahweh and offer burnt offerings for nothing."</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then David built an altar there to Yahweh, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to Yahweh. And he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.</verse>


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<verse num="28">At that time, when David saw that Yahweh answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Now the tabernacle of Yahweh that Moses had made in the desert and the altar of burnt offering <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at that time at the high place of Gibeon.</verse>


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<verse num="30">But David was not able to go before it to seek God, for he was afraid on account of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel." </verse>


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<verse num="2">And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And David provided much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the seams, and abundant copper <transChange type="added">that</transChange> could not be weighed,</verse>


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<verse num="4">and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought abundant cedars to David.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then David said, "Solomon my son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh <transChange type="added">must be</transChange> exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him." So David provided abundant <transChange type="added">materials</transChange> before he died. </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then he called to Solomon his son and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And David said to Solomon his son, "I myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,</verse>


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<verse num="8">but it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">came</transChange> over me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days.</verse>


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<verse num="10">He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'</verse>


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<verse num="11">Now, my son, Yahweh will be with you, that you may succeed and build the house of Yahweh your God as he has spoken concerning you.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now see, with great effort I have made provision for the house of Yahweh: 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron <transChange type="added">that</transChange> cannot be weighed, for there is an abundance. Also timber and stone I have provided, but to these you should add.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And with you <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every <transChange type="added">kind of</transChange> craftsmanship</verse>


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<verse num="16">with gold, silver, bronze, and iron without number. Arise and work! Yahweh will be with you!" </verse>


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<verse num="17">And David commanded all the commanders of Israel to help Solomon his son, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>,</verse>


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<verse num="18">"Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he <transChange type="added">not</transChange> given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Now set your heart and mind to seek Yahweh your Go, and arise and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, that the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God might be brought into the house built for the name of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he assembled all the commanders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirty-eight thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Of these, <transChange type="added">David said,</transChange> "Twenty-four thousand <transChange type="added">are</transChange> to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials,</verse>


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<verse num="5">four thousand gatekeepers, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And David organized them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. </verse>


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<verse num="7">For the Gershonites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Ladan and Shimei.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of Ladan.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; these four <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Shimei.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father. </verse>


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<verse num="13">The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things. He and his sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> to burn offerings forever before Yahweh to serve him and to bless in his name forever.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But Moses the man of God <transChange type="added">and</transChange> his sons were reckoned among the tribe of Levi.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah, the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.</verse>


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<verse num="19">The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them.</verse>


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<verse num="24">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, <transChange type="added">who were to</transChange> do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and above.</verse>


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<verse num="25">For David said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And also, the Levites do not <transChange type="added">need</transChange> to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service."</verse>


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<verse num="27">For by the last words of David, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and above.</verse>


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<verse num="28">For their station <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {to assist}<note>Literally "for the hand of"</note> the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, over the courtyards, over the chambers, and over the cleansing of all the sanctified objects, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the work of the service of the house of God,</verse>


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<verse num="29">and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> to stand {every morning},<note>Literally "in the morning, in the morning"</note> thanking and praising Yahweh, and likewise in the evening,</verse>


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<verse num="31">and for every burnt offering offered to Yahweh, on Sabbaths, on new moon festivals, and at the appointed feasts, according to the customary number {required of them},<note>Literally "over them"</note> regularly before Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And they shall keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly,<note>Or "meeting"</note> the responsibility of the sanctified objects, and the responsibility of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to serve the house of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And as for the sons of Aaron, <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> their divisions. The sons of Aaron <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and {they had no sons},<note>Literally "sons were not to them"</note> so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their appointments for their service.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And more sons of Eleazar were found as heads of the men than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them to the sons of Eleazar <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> sixteen heads over the house of the fathers, and to the sons of Ithamar over the house of the fathers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> eight <transChange type="added">heads</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="5">They divided them by lot {all alike},<note>Literally "these with those"</note> for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the priests and Levites, one father's house drawn by Lot for Eleazar and one drawn by lot for Ithamar.</verse>


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<verse num="19">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their appointments for their service to come into the house of Yahweh according to their custom by the hand of Aaron their father, as Yahweh the God of Israel had commanded him. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And as for the remainder of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Of the sons of Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.</verse>


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<verse num="26">The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, his son.<note>Or "Beno"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, his son,<note>Or "Beno"</note> Shoham, Zakkur, and Ibri.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And lots were also cast <transChange type="added">for</transChange> these, just as their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for the priests and for the Levites the fathers, {on the principle of the chief and younger brother alike}.<note>Literally "the head like his brother the younger"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Heman, and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Jeduthun, who prophesied with stringed instruments, with harps, and with cymbals. And their inventory of the men of the work <transChange type="added">and</transChange> for their duty was:</verse>


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<verse num="2">for the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph, under the hand<note>That is, under the direction</note> of Asaph, who prophesied under the hands<note>That is, under the direction</note> of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah,<note>One Hebrew manuscript and the LXX add "Shimei" between Jeshaiah and Heshabiah (see verse 17)</note> Heshabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands<note>That is, under the direction</note> of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the stringed instrument with thanksgiving and praise to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.</verse>


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<verse num="5">All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sons to Heman, the seer of the king, according to the words of God to raise a horn.<note>That is, to exalt Heman</note> And God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="6">All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the {direction}<note>Literally "hands"</note> of their father in the music of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the {direction}<note>Literally "hands"</note> of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And their number, along with their brothers, trained singers, all the skilled people for Yahweh, were two hundred and eighty-eight.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they cast lots <transChange type="added">for</transChange> responsibilities {on the principle of small and great alike},<note>Literally "for like the small, like the great"</note> teacher with student. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And the first lot for Asaph went out to Joseph; the second to Gedaliahu; he and his brothers and his twelve sons.</verse>


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<verse num="20">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="21">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="22">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="23">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="24">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="25">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="26">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="27">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="28">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="29">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="30">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-third, to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;</verse>


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<verse num="31">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve. </verse>


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<verse num="1">As for the working groups of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,</verse>


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<verse num="5">Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And to Shemaiah his son were sons born who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> rulers in the house of their father, for they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mighty warriors of ability.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sons of ability, Elihu and Semakiah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">All these from the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons, and their brothers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> men of ability with strength for service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And Hosah, from the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (though he was not firstborn, his father appointed him as chief),</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">Hilkiah the second, Tabaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thirteen. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">These working groups of gatekeepers, corresponding to the chief men, had responsibilities like their brothers to serve in the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And they cast lots, small and great alike, by their fathers' houses, {for their gates}.<note>Literally "for gate and gate"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">And the lot fell to the east to Shelemiah. As for Zechariah his son, {a wise counselor},<note>Literally "giving counsel with understanding"</note> they cast lots. And his lot came out for the north.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">To Obed-Edom <transChange type="added">went out</transChange> the south, and to his sons, the storehouses.</verse>


book: 1Chr
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<verse num="16">For Shuppim and Hosah <transChange type="added">it went out</transChange> for the west, at the gate of Shalleketh, on the road that goes up, guard for guard.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">To the east, six Levites; to the north, four daily; to the south, four daily; and at the storerooms, two <transChange type="added">by</transChange> two.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the working groups of the gatekeepers among the sons of the Korahites and among the sons of Merari. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="20">And of the Levites: Ahijah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the treasuries of the house of God and over the treasuries of the sanctified objects.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">The sons of Ladan: the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the Ozzielites:</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="24">Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> commander over the treasuries.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="25">And his brothers: from Eliezer <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zikri his son, and Shelomoth his son.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="26">That Shelomoth and his brothers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over all the treasuries of the sanctified objects that King David and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> to the commanders of thousands and hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="27">From the battles and from the spoil they had dedicated <transChange type="added">these things</transChange> to strengthen the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="28">And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated--all the dedicated gifts <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the hand of Shelomith and his brothers.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="29">For the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons <transChange type="added">were appointed</transChange> to the duties outside of Israel as officials and as judges.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="30">For the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the administration of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Yahweh and for the service of the king.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="31">For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the {families}.<note>Literally "fathers"</note> (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.)</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="32">And his brothers, sons of ability, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two thousand seven hundred heads of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> and King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter of God and matter of the king. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">And as for the number of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> the heads of {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officials who serve the king in all matters of the working groups that came and went, month by month, throughout all the months of the year, each working group: twenty-four thousand. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">Over the first working group for the first month: Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="3">From the sons of Perez <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> the chief of the commanders of the armies for the first month.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">And over the working groups of the second month: Dodai the Ahohite and his working group, and Mikloth the commander. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="5">The third commander of the army for the third month <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Benaiah son of Jehoiada the chief priest. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Benaiah <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> a mighty warrior of thirty, and over the thirty and his working group <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ammizabad his son.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">The fourth, for the fourth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Asahel the brother of Joab and his son Zebadiah after him. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="8">The fifth, for the fifth month, the commander <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shamhuth the Izrahite. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">The sixth, for the sixth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">The seventh, for the seventh month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">The eighth, for the eighth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahites. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">The ninth, for the ninth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abiezer the Anathothite of the Benjamites. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">The tenth, for the tenth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">The eleventh, for the eleventh month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Benaiah the Pirathonite from the sons of Ephraim. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">The twelfth, for the twelfth month, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> over his working group <transChange type="added">of</transChange> twenty-four thousand. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">And over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites: the commander <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Eliezer the son of Zikri. For the Simeonites: Shephatiah the son of Maacah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="18">For Judah: Elihu, from the brothers of David. For Issachar: Omri the son of Michael.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">For Zebulun: Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah. For Naphtali: Jerimoth the son of Azriel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="20">For the Ephraimites: Hoshea the son of Azaziah. For the half-tribe of Manasseh: Joel the son of Pedaiah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">For the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo the son of Zechariah. For Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">For Dan: Azarel the son of Jeroham. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the commanders of the tribes of Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">And David did not {take a census of those twenty years old or under}<note>Literally "take up their count from a son of twenty years and to less"</note> because Yahweh promised<note>Or "said"</note> to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="24">Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in {the chronicles}<note>Literally "in the numbering of the words of the days"</note> of King David. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="25">And over the treasury rooms of the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Azmaveth the son of Adiel. And over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the unwalled villages, and in the towers <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jonathan the son of Uzziah.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="26">And over those who did the work in the field to till the soil <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ezri the son of Kelub.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="27">And over the vineyards <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shemei the Ramathite. And over the produce in the vineyards for the storehouses of the wine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zabdi the Shiphmite.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="28">And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the Shephelah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Baal-Hanan the Gederite. And over the treasury houses of olive oil <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Joash.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="29">And over the cattle pastured in the Sharon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the valley <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shaphat the son of Adlai.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="30">And over the camels <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the female donkeys <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jehdeiah the Meronothite.<note>1 Chronicles 27:31 begins here in the Hebrew Bible</note> And over the sheep <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jaziz the Hagrite.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="31">All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> officials of the property of King David. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="32">And Jehonathan the uncle of David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> an adviser, a man of insight, and he was a scribe. And Jehiel the son of Hachmoni <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with the sons of the king.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="33">And Ahithophel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> an adviser to the king, and Hushai the Arkite <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a friend of the king. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="34">And after Ahithophel <transChange type="added">came</transChange> Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. And Joab <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the commander of the king's army. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">Then David assembled all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes and the commanders of working groups who served the king, and the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property of the king and his sons, with the court officials and mighty warriors, and all the mighty warriors of ability, at Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">And King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. {I myself wanted}<note>Literally "I myself with my heart"</note> to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="3">But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a man of war, and you have shed blood.'</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="5">And from all my sons--for Yahweh has given many sons to me--he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">And he said to me, 'Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">and I will establish his kingdom forever if {he firmly performs}<note>Literally "if he is strong to do"</note> my commandments and my judgments as <transChange type="added">he has to</transChange> this day.'</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="8">So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of Yahweh your God so that you may take possession of this good land and bestow <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as an inheritance to your children after you forever." </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and <transChange type="added">all</transChange> thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">Look now, for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it!" </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">Then David gave to Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the lid of the ark,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">and the plan of all {that he had in mind}<note>Literally "that was in the spirit with him"</note> for the courtyards of the house of Yahweh and for all the surrounding storage rooms, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for sanctified objects,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">and for the working groups of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels for the service of the house of Yahweh,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">and</transChange> for the gold, according to the weight of the gold for all the vessels of the service, and the service of all the vessels of silver according to the weight of all the vessels {for every kind of service}.<note>Literally "service and service"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And the weight of the golden lampstands and the golden lamps, {the weight of each lampstand and each lamp},<note>Literally "by weight of lampstand and lampstand, with its lamp and to the lamps"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the silver according to the weight of a lampstand and its lamp, according to the use of {each lampstand},<note>Literally "lampstand and lampstand"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">and the weight of gold for the tables of the arranged <transChange type="added">bread</transChange>, {each table},<note>Literally "to table and table"</note> and silver for the tables of silver,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">and pure gold <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the three-pronged meat forks, and the bowls and the pitchers, and for the golden bowls, by weight for {each bowl},<note>Literally "for bowl and bowl"</note> and for the silver bowls, by weight for {each bowl},<note>Literally "for bowl and bowl"</note></verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="18">and for the altar of incense <transChange type="added">made of</transChange> refined gold, by weight, and gold for the plan for the chariot--the cherubim with outspread and covering wings over the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">"All this <transChange type="added">I give you</transChange> in writing; from the hand of Yahweh he instructed me <transChange type="added">about</transChange> all the workings of this plan." </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="20">Then David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do <transChange type="added">this</transChange>! Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for Yahweh God, my God, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you. He will not fail you and will not forsake you until all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">And behold, the working groups of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work for all <transChange type="added">those</transChange> willing with the skill for every service, and the commanders and all the people for all your commands." </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="1">Then David the king said to all the assembly, "God has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great, for the citadel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not for humankind, but for Yahweh God.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="2">So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> precious stones and alabaster stones.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="3">And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house:</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="4">three thousand talents of gold from the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="5">gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, {consecrating himself}<note>Literally "to consecrate his hand"</note> today to Yahweh?" </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="6">Then the commanders of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> the commanders of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the work of the king offered themselves willingly.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="7">And they gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="8">And whoever had <transChange type="added">precious</transChange> stones gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to the treasury of the house of Yahweh under the authority<note>Or "hand"</note> of Jehiel the Gershonite.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="9">And the people rejoiced over their freewill offering, for with a whole heart they had willingly offered to Yahweh, and King David also rejoiced with great joy. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="10">Then David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly, and David said, "Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you, O Yahweh, God of Israel, our father forever and ever!</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="11">To you, O Yahweh, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the kingdom and exaltation over all as head!</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="12">And wealth and glory <transChange type="added">are</transChange> from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> power and might. And in your hand <transChange type="added">is power</transChange> to make great and to give strength to all.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And now, our God, we give thanks to you and offer praise to the name of your splendor.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="14">And indeed, who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I, and who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my people that we retain power to offer according to these <transChange type="added">offerings</transChange> willingly? For everything <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from you, and from your hand we have given to you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="15">For we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> Our days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope <transChange type="added">of abiding</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="16">O Yahweh our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build for you a house for your holy name is from your hand, and all <transChange type="added">of it</transChange> is yours.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="17">And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="18">O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> keep this forever as a plan <transChange type="added">and</transChange> thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="19">Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="20">And David said to all the assembly, "Bless Yahweh your God!" And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="21">And they offered sacrifices to Yahweh, and on that next day they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, one thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="22">And they ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed <transChange type="added">him</transChange> commander for Yahweh, and Zadok the priest. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="23">Then Solomon sat upon the throne of Yahweh as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="24">And all the officials and mighty warriors, and also all the sons of King David, {pledged allegiance to}<note>Literally "placed a hand under"</note> King Solomon.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="25">And Yahweh made Solomon exceedingly great in the sight of all Israel, and he bestowed upon him royal splendor that was not <transChange type="added">bestowed</transChange> upon any king before him in Israel. </verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="27">And the days that he reigned over Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> forty years. In Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="28">And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="29">Now the words of King David, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first to the last, see, they are written among the words of Samuel the seer, and among the words of Nathan the prophet, and among the words of Gad the seer,</verse>


book: 1Chr
content:
<verse num="30">with all <transChange type="added">the accounts of</transChange> his kingdom, his power, and the times that came upon him, and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the earth. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="1">And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself concerning his kingdom, and Yahweh his God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him and made him exceedingly great.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders for all Israel, the heads of the {families}.<note>Literally "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Gibeon, for the tent of assembly<note>Or "meeting"</note> of God that Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the desert was there.</verse>


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<verse num="4">(But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-Jearim to <transChange type="added">the place</transChange> David had prepared for it, for David had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there before the tabernacle of Yahweh. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the tent of assembly,<note>Or "meeting"</note> and he offered upon it a thousand burnt offerings. </verse>


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<verse num="7">On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Solomon said to God, "You yourself have shown steadfast<note>Or "great"</note> loyal love to David my father and have made me king in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?" </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then God said to Solomon, "Because this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, and the lives of your enemies, and also did not ask for {long life},<note>Literally "many days"</note> but have asked for wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king,</verse>


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<verse num="12">wisdom and knowledge is given to you. And I will <transChange type="added">also</transChange> give to you wealth, possessions, and honor, the like of which was not had by the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> before you, nor will there be the like after you."</verse>


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<verse num="13">So Solomon went from the high place which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Gibeon <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem before the tent of assembly.<note>Or "meeting"</note> And he reigned over Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem like the stones. And he made cedar as abundant as the sycamore fig trees that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the Shephelah.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Solomon's horses <transChange type="added">were</transChange> imported from Egypt and from Kue. The traders of the king received <transChange type="added">them</transChange> from Kue at a price.</verse>


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<verse num="17">They went up and exported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for one hundred and fifty <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange>. And <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> {likewise exported}<note>Literally "likewise through their hand"</note> to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.<note>Or "Syria"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>2 Chronicles 2:1-18 in the English Bible is 1:18-2:17 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Solomon planned to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a {royal palace for himself}.<note>Literally "house for his kingdom"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men {to bear burdens}<note>Literally "carriers"</note> and eighty thousand {quarriers}<note>Literally "stone craftsmen"</note> in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred <transChange type="added">men</transChange> to supervise them.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Solomon sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> king of Tyre, saying, "As you have dealt with David my father and sent cedar to him to build for himself a house in which to live, <transChange type="added">please deal with me</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the regular rows <transChange type="added">of bread</transChange>, and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> everlasting for Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the house that I am building <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> great, for our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> greater than all gods.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and {the highest heavens}<note>Literally "the heavens of the heavens"</note> are not able to contain him. Now who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him?</verse>


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<verse num="7">So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with your servants</verse>


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<verse num="9">to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> great and wonderful.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber." </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them."</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself.</verse>


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<verse num="13">So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable <transChange type="added">and with</transChange> understanding: my master<note>Or "my father"</note> Huram,</verse>


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<verse num="14">a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send <transChange type="added">that</transChange> to his servants.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem." </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he appointed from them seventy thousand {to bear burdens},<note>Literally "carriers"</note> eighty thousand {to quarry}<note>Literally "stone craftsmen"</note> in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Now these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the measurements of Solomon for building the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measurement <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sixty cubits, and the width <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty cubits.</verse>


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<verse num="4">{The length of the portico that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in front was the same as the front of the width of the house}:<note>Literally "The length at the front of the portico the front of the width of the house"</note> twenty cubits. And its height <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the great house <transChange type="added">itself</transChange> he covered with cypress wood, then he overlaid it with pure gold. And he put on it palm tree <transChange type="added">images</transChange> and <transChange type="added">ornate</transChange> chains.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the gold of Parvaim.)</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he overlaid the house with gold--the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors. And he carved cherubim upon the walls.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then he made {the most holy place}.<note>Literally "the house of the holy of the holies"</note> Its length {was equal to}<note>Literally "at the front of"</note> the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the weight for the nails <transChange type="added">was</transChange> fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in {the most holy place},<note>Literally "the house of the holy of the holies"</note> and he overlaid them with gold.</verse>


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<verse num="11">The length of the <transChange type="added">outstretched</transChange> wings of the cherubim <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty cubits; one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> touching the <transChange type="added">outstretched</transChange> wing of the other cherub.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the wing of five cubits of the other cherub <transChange type="added">was</transChange> touching the wall of the house, and its other wing five cubits long touching the wing of the first<note>Or "other"</note> cherub.</verse>


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<verse num="13">The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they were standing on their feet, their faces toward the house.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and put cherubim on it.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he made <transChange type="added">decorative</transChange> chains in the inner sanctuary and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranate <transChange type="added">ornaments</transChange>, and put them on the chains.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. He called the name of the southern one Jakin, and the name of the northern one Boaz. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> its length, and twenty cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> its width, and ten cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> its height.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then he made the sea of molten metal, from brim to brim <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> ten cubits, completely round. And <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> five cubits in height, and {its circumference measured}<note>Literally "and it measured a line all around it"</note> thirty cubits.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Under it <transChange type="added">were</transChange> figures of oxen all around it, ten cubits <transChange type="added">high</transChange>, encircling the sea all around. The oxen <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in two rows {cast as one piece with it}.<note>Literally "molten with its casting"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">It was</transChange> standing upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. The sea <transChange type="added">was set</transChange> upon them from above, and all their hindquarters <transChange type="added">faced</transChange> {inward}.<note>Literally "into the house"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And its thickness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a handbreadth, and its brim <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he made ten basins. And he set five on the south and five on the north in which to wash; they washed off the work of the burnt offering in them, but the sea <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for the priests to wash therein.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he made ten golden lampstands according to their custom, and he set <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in the temple, five on the south and five on the north.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he made the courtyard of the priests and the great outer courtyard and the doors for the outer court. And he overlaid their doors with bronze.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he set the sea at the southeast <transChange type="added">corner of the temple</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> made the pots, the shovels, and the drinking bowls. So Hiram<note>The spelling ("Hiram") is different here than in the previous occurrences</note> finished making the work that he made on the house of God for King Solomon:</verse>


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<verse num="12">the two columns, the bowls, and the two capitals on top of the columns, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on top of the columns,</verse>


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<verse num="13">and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> before the columns.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Huram-abi made for King Solomon the pots, the shovels, the three-pronged meat forks, and all the utensils of polished bronze for the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.</verse>


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<verse num="19">So Solomon made all the objects that <transChange type="added">were in</transChange> the house of God: the altar of gold; the tables upon which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the bread of the presence;</verse>


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<verse num="20">the lampstands, and the lamps for burning according to the custom before the inner sanctuary, of solid gold;</verse>


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<verse num="21">and the blossoms, the lamps, and the tongs that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> of solid gold;</verse>


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<verse num="22">and the snuffers, the drinking bowls, the dishes, and the firepans, of solid gold; and the entrance to the house, the inner doors to {the most holy place}, and the doors to the house of the temple <transChange type="added">were</transChange> of gold. </verse>


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<verse num="1">When all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished, Solomon brought the holy objects of David his father: the silver, the gold, and all the objects he had put into the storehouses of the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Zion.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that <transChange type="added">is in</transChange> the seventh month.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And they brought up the ark, the tent of assembly,<note>Or "meeting"</note> and all the holy objects that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And King Solomon and the whole community of Israel that was assembled before him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted nor numbered for abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the priests brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, into {the most holy place}, underneath the wings of the cherubim.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The cherubim were spreading <transChange type="added">their</transChange> wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim were covering the ark and over its poles <transChange type="added">from</transChange> above.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But the poles were <transChange type="added">so</transChange> long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="10">There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put <transChange type="added">inside</transChange> at Horeb <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which Yahweh had {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> when they went out from Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present<note>Or "who were found"</note> sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions)</verse>


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<verse num="12">and all the Levitical singers--Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments--<transChange type="added">they</transChange> were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside <transChange type="added">were</transChange> one hundred and twenty priests <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> trumpet blowers.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it was the primary <transChange type="added">duty</transChange> of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard <transChange type="added">with</transChange> one voice, to praise and give thanks to Yahweh. And when a sound from the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments of song was raised to Yahweh--for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good, because his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting--then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has decided<note>Or "said"</note> to dwell in the deep gloom.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But I have built for you an exalted house, even a place for you to dwell in forever."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then the king turned around<note>Or "turned his face"</note> and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel were standing.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth with David my father, and with his hands he has fulfilled <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="5">'From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="6">But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'</verse>


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<verse num="7">Now, it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart,</verse>


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<verse num="9">but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.'</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now Yahweh has fulfilled his word that he spoke. I have risen in the place of David my father and am seated on the throne of Israel as Yahweh has spoken. I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And I have there the ark <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the covenant of Yahweh that he {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with the {Israelites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.</verse>


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<verse num="13">(For Solomon had made a platform of bronze five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high, and placed it in the midst of the outer court.) And he stood upon it, then knelt down on his knees before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is none like you, a God in the heavens and on the earth, keeping the covenant and loyal love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart,</verse>


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<verse num="15">that you have kept for your servant David my father what you spoke to him. You spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you have fulfilled <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on this day.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you have spoken to him, saying, '{You shall not lack}<note>Literally "There shall not be cut off"</note> a man to sit on the throne of Israel before me, if only your sons keep their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'</verse>


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<verse num="17">And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, let your word that you have spoken to your servant David be confirmed. </verse>


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<verse num="18">"But will God indeed dwell with humankind upon the earth? Look, the heavens and {the highest heavens}<note>Literally "the heavens of the heavens"</note> cannot contain you! Surely then this house that I have built <transChange type="added">will not contain you!</transChange></verse>


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<verse num="19">But turn to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Yahweh my God, to hearken to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you,</verse>


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<verse num="20">that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this place, that you yourself might hear from the place of your dwelling, from the heavens, that you might hear and forgive. </verse>


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<verse num="22">"If a man sins against his neighbor and {makes him swear an oath}<note>Literally "places upon him an oath to swear an oath"</note> and comes <transChange type="added">with</transChange> an oath before your altar in this house,</verse>


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<verse num="23">then may you yourself hear from the heavens and act and judge your servants, to repay the guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to vindicate the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness. </verse>


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<verse num="24">"And if your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you and they repent and confess your name and pray and plead before you in this house,</verse>


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<verse num="25">then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel and again bring them back to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="26">"When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them,</verse>


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<verse num="27">then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance. </verse>


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<verse num="28">"If there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land <transChange type="added">and</transChange> his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease,</verse>


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<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> any prayer, any plea that is <transChange type="added">made</transChange> by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> spreads out his hands to this house,</verse>


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<verse num="30">then may you yourself hear from the heavens, your dwelling place, and forgive and give to each according to all his ways, since you know the heart of the children of humankind,</verse>


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<verse num="31">that they may fear you <transChange type="added">and</transChange> walk in your ways all the days that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="32">"And also, with respect to the foreigner, he who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land, for the sake of your great name and your powerful hand and outstretched arm, when he comes and prays to this house,</verse>


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<verse num="33">then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as <transChange type="added">do</transChange> your people Israel, and that they may know that your name {possesses}<note>Literally "is called over"</note> this house that I have built. </verse>


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<verse num="34">"When your people go out to battle against their enemy according to the way that you have sent them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,</verse>


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<verse num="35">then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens and uphold their case.</verse>


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<verse num="36">When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,</verse>


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<verse num="37">but {if they repent}<note>Literally "if they turn back to their heart"</note> in the land where they were taken captive and {repent}<note>Literally "turn back"</note> and beg you for mercy in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and acted perversely and done wickedly,</verse>


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<verse num="38">and we return to you,' with their whole heart and with all their inmost being in the land of their captivity where they took them captive, and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> they pray toward their land that you have given to their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and the city that you have chosen and to the house that I have built for your name,</verse>


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<verse num="39">then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and uphold their case and forgive your people who sinned against you.</verse>


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<verse num="40">Now, O my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place! </verse>


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<verse num="41">"And now arise, O Yahweh God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! O Yahweh God, let the priests be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in your goodness!</verse>


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<verse num="42">O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!" </verse>


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<verse num="1">And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And the priests were not able to go into the house of Yahweh, for the glory of Yahweh had filled the house.</verse>


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<verse num="3">When all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saw the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, they knelt down <transChange type="added">with their</transChange> faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to Yahweh, for <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> good, for his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the priests stood at their posts with the Levites, with the instruments of the song of Yahweh that King David had made to give thanks to Yahweh--for his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting--whenever David offered praise by their hand. Now the priests sounded trumpets <transChange type="added">standing</transChange> opposite them, and all Israel stood. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> before the house of Yahweh, for there he had made the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and the fat. </verse>


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<verse num="8">And Solomon held<note>Or "made"</note> a feast at that time <transChange type="added">of</transChange> seven days. And all Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the river of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they held<note>Or "made"</note> the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents rejoicing and festive of heart on account of the goodness that Yahweh had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Solomon finished the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. And all that came into the heart of Solomon to do with respect to the house of Yahweh and his own house he accomplished. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.</verse>


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<verse num="13">When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people,</verse>


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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">then if</transChange> my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there {for all time}.<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">Now <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked and do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my ordinances and judgments,</verse>


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<verse num="18">then I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I promised<note>Or "covenanted"</note> to David your father, saying, 'A man shall not be cut off for you <transChange type="added">from</transChange> ruling over Israel.' </verse>


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<verse num="19">"But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you <transChange type="added">all</transChange> and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them,</verse>


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<verse num="20">then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> this house, which was exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?'</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then they will say, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and <transChange type="added">they</transChange> laid hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.'" </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the end of twenty years <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh and his own house,</verse>


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<verse num="2">Solomon also built the cities that Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> had given to him, and he settled the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he built Tadmor in the desert, and he built all the storage cities in Hamath.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He also built Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities <transChange type="added">with</transChange> walls, gates, and bars;</verse>


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<verse num="6">Baalath and all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon; all the cities for chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and cities for horses; and any desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.</verse>


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<verse num="7">All the people who remained from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not from Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="8">from the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> who were left over after them in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed, Solomon conscripted them as forced labor until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Solomon did not give as servants for his work, but they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> men of war, his commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and his horses.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the commanders of the garrisons that belonged to King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who exercised authority over the people. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for those <transChange type="added">places</transChange> to which the ark of Yahweh has come <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh that he had built before the portico,</verse>


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<verse num="13">{as was the daily requirement},<note>Literally "with respect to the word of the day, by day"</note> to offer up according to the commandments of Moses for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three {annual}<note>Literally "occurrences in the year"</note> feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And in accord with the ordinance of David his father he appointed working groups of priests for their service, Levites for their responsibilities for praise and cultic service before the priests {according to the daily requirement},<note>Literally "according to the word of the day, by day"</note> and the gatekeepers in their working groups, gate by gate. For thus David the man of God had commanded.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites concerning anything, and concerning the treasury rooms.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Solomon accomplished all the work from the day the foundation stone <transChange type="added">was laid for</transChange> the house of Yahweh until its completion, and the house of Yahweh was finished.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Solomon went to Ezion-Geber, and to Elath, on the edge of the sea in the land of Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Huram<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> sent to him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants knowledgeable of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and from there they collected four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {on her mind}.<note>Literally "in her heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And Solomon {answered all her questions}.<note>Literally "made known to her all her words"</note> Not a word was hidden from Solomon that he did not answer for her.</verse>


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<verse num="3">When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built,</verse>


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<verse num="4">and the food of his table, and the position of his officers, the duty of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of Yahweh, there was no longer any breath<note>Or "spirit"</note> in her.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And she said to the king, "The word which I heard in my land concerning your words and your wisdom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> true,</verse>


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<verse num="6">but I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not reported to me; you surpass the rumors that I had heard.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your men, and blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom!</verse>


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<verse num="8">Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!"</verse>


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<verse num="9">And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Moreover the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the algum wood. And there was not seen <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> like them before in the land of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba every desired thing she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year <transChange type="added">was</transChange> six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,</verse>


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<verse num="14">besides the gold and silver the traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange> of beaten gold went into each shield.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And <transChange type="added">he made</transChange> three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange> went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold <transChange type="added">was</transChange> attached to the throne. And <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> armrests {on each side}.<note>Literally "from this and from that"</note> And by {the seat}<note>Literally "the place of sitting"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two lions standing beside the armrests.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And twelve lions were standing there on <transChange type="added">each</transChange> of the six steps {on each end}.<note>Literally "from this and from that"</note> And there was nothing like <transChange type="added">it</transChange> made in all the kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon <transChange type="added">were</transChange> of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon <transChange type="added">were</transChange> of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon.</verse>


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<verse num="21">For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram.<note>This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have "Hiram"</note> Once {every three years}<note>Literally "for three years"</note> the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. </verse>


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<verse num="22">Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an amount year by year.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.</verse>


