# bible

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<verse num="26">And he ruled over all the kings from the River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the Shephelah for abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And the horses <transChange type="added">were</transChange> imported from Egypt and from all lands for Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="29">As for the remainder of the words of Solomon <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles<note>Or "words"</note> of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?</verse>


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<verse num="31">And Solomon slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Shechem to make him king.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>--now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon--Jeroboam returned from Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="4">"Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he said to them, "In three days return to me again." And the people went away. </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been {serving}<note>Literally "standing"</note> before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">And they said to him, "If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants {forever}."<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were {serving}<note>Literally "standing"</note> before him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he said to them, "What do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us'?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus you should say to this people who have said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, so you yourself should lighten <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for us.' Thus you should say to them, 'My little finger <transChange type="added">is</transChange> thicker than the loins of my father.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I myself will add to the yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I myself <transChange type="added">will do so</transChange> with scorpions.'" </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, "Return to me on the third day."</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the king answered them harshly, and King Rehoboam forsook the advice of the elders.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "I will make your yoke heavy, and I myself will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I <transChange type="added">will do so</transChange> with scorpions."</verse>


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<verse num="15">So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning <transChange type="added">of events</transChange> from God, so that Yahweh might fulfill his word that he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.</verse>


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<verse num="16">So all Israel <transChange type="added">saw</transChange> that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, "What portion <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> for us in David? <transChange type="added">We have</transChange> no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" And all Israel went to their own tents.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But as for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was {in charge of}<note>Literally "over"</note> the forced labor, but the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> stoned him with stones, and he died. Then King Rehoboam hastily went up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="1">When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand {chosen warriors},<note>Literally "chosen makers of war"</note> to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.</verse>


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<verse num="3">"Say to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,</verse>


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<verse num="4">'Thus says Yahweh: "Do not go up, and do not fight against your brothers. Return, each man to his house, for this matter has come from me." '" So they obeyed the words of Yahweh and turned back from going against Jeroboam. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities as strongholds in Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Judah and in Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And he strengthened the fortifications and put commanders in them, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> stores of food, olive oil, and wine.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And in all the cities <transChange type="added">he put</transChange> shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened them. So he had Judah and Benjamin. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Now the priests and the Levites who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> throughout all Israel took their stand with him<note>That is, Rehoboam</note> from all their territories.</verse>


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<verse num="14">For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then after them, from all the tribes of Israel, those who set their heart to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to offer to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, secure for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Rehoboam took to himself as a wife Mahalath, the daughter<note>This follows the reading tradition (Qere); the Kethib reading has "son"</note> of Yerimot son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief and crown prince over his brothers, in order to make him king.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons throughout all the land of Judah and Benjamin, through all the fortified cities, and gave abundant provisions to them and obtained many wives <transChange type="added">for them</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> in the fifth year of King Rehoboam (for they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh), Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem</verse>


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<verse num="3">with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no number to the people who came up with him from Egypt--Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and he came up to Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'"</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> righteous."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.</verse>


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<verse num="8">However, they shall be his servants, that they might know my service and the service of the kingdoms of <transChange type="added">other</transChange> countries." </verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures out of the house of Yahweh and the treasures out of the king's house. He took everything. He also took the small shields of gold that Solomon had made.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh was turned away from him, so that he did not destroy <transChange type="added">the city</transChange> completely. Moreover, matters were well in Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="13">So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned <transChange type="added">there</transChange>. Now, Rehoboam <transChange type="added">was</transChange> forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Naamah the Ammonite.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Now the words of Rehoboam <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles<note>Or "words"</note> of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer as a record? And <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> battles <transChange type="added">between</transChange> Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their<note>Or "the"</note> days.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Rehoboam slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and he was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="2">He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Micaiah the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. </verse>


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<verse num="3">And Abijah joined in the battle with an army of four hundred thousand {battle-hardened warriors},<note>Literally "mighty warriors of battle"</note> chosen men, and Jeroboam put the battle in order against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, an army of mighty warriors. </verse>


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<verse num="4">Then Abijah stood up on top of Mount Zemaraim that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!</verse>


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<verse num="5">Do you not all know that Yahweh the God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons <transChange type="added">by</transChange> a covenant of salt?</verse>


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<verse num="6">But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master,</verse>


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<verse num="7">and worthless men, {sons of wickedness},<note>Literally "sons of Belial"</note> were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough <transChange type="added">to stand</transChange> before them.</verse>


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<verse num="8">So now you yourselves are considering <transChange type="added">that you are</transChange> strong before the kingdom of Yahweh <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> in the hand the sons of David, since you yourselves are a great multitude and you have bull calves of gold that Jeroboam has made for idols.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you <transChange type="added">not</transChange> made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come {to be consecrated for priestly service}<note>Literally "to fill his hand" (a Hebrew idiom for ordination)</note> with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> not a god.</verse>


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<verse num="10">But as for us, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests serving Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Aaron, the Levites, according to their service.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They offer burnt offerings to Yahweh {every morning}<note>Literally "in the morning, in the morning"</note> and {every evening},<note>Literally "in the evening, in the evening"</note> sweet spices of incense, and the rows of bread upon the pure table. And the golden lampstand with its lamps <transChange type="added">they</transChange> keep kindled {every evening},<note>Literally "in the evening, in the evening"</note> for we are keeping the requirement of Yahweh our God, but you yourselves have forsaken him.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And look, God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us at the head, and his priests <transChange type="added">have</transChange> the trumpets for sounding blasts against you, O sons of Israel. Do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> for you will not succeed." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Jeroboam sent around an ambush to come behind them. So they were in front of Judah, but the ambush <transChange type="added">was</transChange> behind them.</verse>


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<verse num="14">When Judah turned, then behold, the battle against them <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in front and behind, and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests blew on the trumpets.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then the men of Judah shouted, and it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when the men of Judah were shouting, then God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> fled from before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel <transChange type="added">that</transChange> fell <transChange type="added">were</transChange> five hundred thousand chosen men.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were subdued at that time, and the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah were victorious, for they relied upon Yahweh the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="19">And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued him and he died.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But Abijah became strong, and he took to himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Now the rest of the words of Abijah and his ways and his words are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>2 Chronicles 14:1-15 in the English Bible is 13:23-14:14 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Abijah slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son became king in his place. In his days the land was at rest ten years.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Asa did that which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and to keep the law and the commandment.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under<note>Or "before"</note> him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was at rest. Under<note>Or "With"</note> him there was no war in those years, for Yahweh had given rest to him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround <transChange type="added">them with</transChange> walls, towers, gates, and bars while the land <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought and he has given rest to us on every side." So they built and had success.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Asa had an army <transChange type="added">of</transChange> three hundred thousand from Judah, bearing shields and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin <transChange type="added">who</transChange> carried shields and drew bows. All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mighty warriors of strength. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Asa went out before him, and a battle was put in order in the valley of Zepah at Mareshah. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, "O Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our God! Let no man prevail against you!" </verse>


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<verse num="12">So Yahweh defeated the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Asa and the army<note>Or "people"</note> with him pursued them to Gerar. And <transChange type="added">many</transChange> from the Cushites fell, for they had no deliverance, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before his army. And they carried away much war booty.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yahweh was upon them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they also struck the tents of the herdsmen and carried away many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Now Israel <transChange type="added">has been</transChange> without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,</verse>


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<verse num="4">but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults <transChange type="added">were</transChange> upon all the inhabitants of the lands.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Nation was crushed by nation, and city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against city, for God threw them into confusion by all <transChange type="added">sorts of</transChange> trouble.</verse>


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<verse num="7">But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor." </verse>


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<verse num="8">And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they were gathered <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> with all their heart and with all their inmost being,<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned <transChange type="added">it</transChange> at the Wadi<note>Or "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kidron.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the house of God--silver and gold and vessels.</verse>


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<verse num="1">In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel went up against Judah. And he built Ramah in order not to allow <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> to go out or come in to Asa, king of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the storehouses of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and he sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram,<note>Or "Syria"</note> who lived in Damascus, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="3">"<transChange type="added">There is</transChange> a covenant between me and you, <transChange type="added">as there was</transChange> between my father and your father. Look, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, that he might withdraw from me." </verse>


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<verse num="4">And Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent commanders of his troops that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him against the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Baasha heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then King Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and he built Geba and Mizpah with them. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "On account of your reliance upon the king of Aram,<note>Or "Syria"</note> and <transChange type="added">since</transChange> you did not rely on Yahweh your God, therefore the troops of the king of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> escaped from your hand.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with very abundant chariots and horsemen? And because of your reliance on Yahweh he gave them into your hand.</verse>


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<verse num="9">For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars." </verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in {the prison},<note>Literally "the house of the stocks"</note> for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Now behold, the words of Asa <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely}<note>Literally "until his illness unto severity"</note> ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but <transChange type="added">only</transChange> among the healers.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Asa slept with his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he put troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals,</verse>


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<verse num="4">but he sought after the God of his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and walked in his commandments and not according to the works of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="5">So Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah gave tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had much wealth and honor.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And his heart was courageous in the ways of Yahweh. Moreover, he removed the high places and the Asherahs from Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="7">In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;</verse>


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<verse num="8">and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah; and with them the priests Elisham and Joram.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they taught in Judah, and the scroll of the law of Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with them when they went around in all the cities of Judah, and they taught the people. </verse>


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<verse num="10">And the fear of Yahweh was upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And some of the Philistines brought a gift and silver to Jehoshaphat <transChange type="added">as</transChange> tribute. The Arabians also brought him seven thousand seven hundred sheep and seven thousand seven hundred goats. </verse>


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<verse num="12">And Jehoshaphat {grew greater and greater},<note>Literally "was going and becoming great to the height"</note> and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he had many supplies in the cities of Judah and mighty warriors for battle in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> their enrollment by the house of their ancestors:<note>Or "fathers"</note> of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah, the commander, and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> three hundred thousand mighty armed warriors;</verse>


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<verse num="15">and at his side,<note>Or "hand"</note> Jehohanan the commander, and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred and eighty thousand;</verse>


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<verse num="16">and at his side,<note>Or "hand"</note> Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And from Benjamin: Eliada, a powerful mighty warrior, and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;</verse>


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<verse num="18">and at his side,<note>Or "hand"</note> Jehozabad, and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> one hundred and eighty thousand armed for war.</verse>


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<verse num="19">These were serving the king, besides <transChange type="added">those</transChange> whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And {after some years}<note>Literally "at the end of years"</note> he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and for the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and urged him to go up against Ramoth-Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, "Will you go up with me to Ramoth-Gilead?" And he answered him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> as you <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, and my people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> as your people with you in war." </verse>


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<verse num="4">Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Seek {first of all}<note>Literally "as the day"</note> the word of Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we cease?" And they said, "Go up, since God will give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the hand of the king."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of Yahweh that we might inquire of him?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "<transChange type="added">There is</transChange> yet one man by whom to seek Yahweh, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but {always}<note>Literally "all his days"</note> disaster. He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say thus."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the king of Israel called to a eunuch and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah the son of Imlah." </verse>


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<verse num="9">Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, clothed in robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you will gore Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> to their destruction.'"</verse>


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<verse num="11">And all the prophets prophesied thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph! Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then the messenger who went to call Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets <transChange type="added">are</transChange> good with one voice to the king. Please let your word be as one with them and speak good."</verse>


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<verse num="13">But Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, only what my God has said, that will I speak." </verse>


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<verse num="14">And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall I cease?" And he said, "Go up and triumph! They shall be given into your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="15">But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak nothing except the truth in the name of Yahweh?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that had no shepherd. And Yahweh said, 'These have no masters; let them return to his own house in peace.'"</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but only disaster?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting upon his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel that he would go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' And one said this, and another said that.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then a spirit came forth and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him.' Then Yahweh said to him, 'By what means?'</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then he said, 'I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You will entice him and will also succeed. Go out and do so.'</verse>


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<verse num="22">So now, behold, Yahweh has put a spirit of deception into the mouths of these your prophets. Yahweh has spoken disaster against you." </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "{Which way}<note>Literally "Where is this the way"</note> did the Spirit of Yahweh come from me to speak to you?"</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day when you go into a private room to hide yourself."</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then 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="26">and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this one into the prison house, and let him eat {a meager ration of bread and water}<note>Literally "bread a short ration and water a short ration"</note> until I return in peace." '"</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Micaiah said, "If you surely return in peace Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Hear, peoples, all of them!" </verse>


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<verse num="28">Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you, wear your garments." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went to war.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Now the king of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> had commanded the commanders of his chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> saying, "Do not fight with the small <transChange type="added">or</transChange> the great, but only with the king of Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="31">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when the commanders of the chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> saw Jehoshaphat, then they said, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of Israel!" And they turned against him to fight. Then Jehoshaphat cried out and Yahweh helped him. God drove them away from him.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when the commanders of the chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from following him.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Now a certain man drew the bow {at random}<note>Literally "in his innocence"</note> and struck the king of Israel between the soldering of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> breastplate armor. Then he said to the chariot driver, "{Turn around};<note>Literally "Turn away your hand"</note> get me away from the <transChange type="added">war</transChange> camp, for I am wounded."</verse>


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<verse num="34">And the battle went on that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in the chariot facing Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> until the evening. And he died at the time of the going down of the sun. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you <transChange type="added">be</transChange> a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath <transChange type="added">has come</transChange> against you from Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God." </verse>


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<verse num="4">And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and returned and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And he appointed judges in the land and in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> with you in speaking justice.</verse>


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<verse num="7">So now, let the fear of Yahweh be upon you all. {Be careful what you do},<note>Literally "Keep and do"</note> for there is neither wickedness nor {showing partiality}<note>Literally "lifting faces"</note> and taking bribes with Yahweh our God." </verse>


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<verse num="8">Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and the priests and heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of Israel as judges and to decide legal disputes for Yahweh. And they sat<note>Or "lived"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he commanded them, saying, "Thus you must do in the fear of Yahweh in faithfulness and with a whole heart.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And behold, Amariah the chief priest <transChange type="added">is</transChange> over you in all matters of the word of Yahweh, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all matters of the king, and the Levites <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> before you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> officials. Be strong and do <transChange type="added">well</transChange>! May Yahweh be with the upright." </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> afterward, the {Moabites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Moab"</note> the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and some of the Meunites<note>The Hebrew term is difficult; it may also mean "Ammonim"</note> came against Jehoshaphat for war.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And they came and reported <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude from beyond the sea, from Aram,<note>Or "Syria"</note> is coming against you. Now behold, <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> in Hazazon Tamar" (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, En Gedi).</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Judah assembled to seek after Yahweh; even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of Yahweh before the new courtyard.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he said, "O Yahweh, God of our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> are you not God in heaven? Now you rule in all the kingdoms of the nations, and in your hand <transChange type="added">are</transChange> power and might, and there is none <transChange type="added">who can</transChange> resist against you.</verse>


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<verse num="7">O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants<note>Or "seed"</note> of Abraham your friend forever?</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they lived in it and built for you a sanctuary for your name in it, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="9">'If disaster, a sword, punishment, disease, or famine come upon us, we shall stand before this house and before you--for your name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in this house--and cry out to you out of our trouble, then you will hear and save <transChange type="added">us</transChange>.'</verse>


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<verse num="10">And now, look, the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Moab and Ammon and Mount Seir whom you did not allow Israel to come against when they came from Egypt, from whom they turned aside and did not destroy,</verse>


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<verse num="11">now behold, they are rewarding us by coming to dispossess us from your possession which you gave us as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="12">O our God, will you not judge them, for there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us. Now we do not know what we shall do, for our eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon you." </verse>


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<verse num="13">And all Judah was standing before Yahweh, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> also their little children, their wives, and their children.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat, thus says Yahweh to you: 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed before this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the valley facing the desert of Jeruel.</verse>


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<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">There will be</transChange> no <transChange type="added">need</transChange> for you to fight in this <transChange type="added">battle</transChange>. Take your stand! Stand and see the deliverance of Yahweh among you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out before them and Yahweh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with you.'"</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Jehoshaphat bowed his face<note>Literally "nostrils"</note> down to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yahweh to worship Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then the Levites, from the {Kohathites}<note>Literally "sons of the Kohathites"</note> and from the {Korahites}<note>Literally "sons of the Korahites"</note> stood up to praise Yahweh the God of Israel with an exceedingly<note>Literally "above"</note> loud voice. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And they rose up early in the morning and went out to the desert of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, and you shall be established! Believe in his prophets, and you shall succeed!"</verse>


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<verse num="21">And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed singers to Yahweh <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> giving praise to the splendor of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> holiness when they went out before the army. And they said, "Give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> everlasting!" </verse>


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<verse num="22">And {when}<note>Or "on time" or "at the time"</note> they began with singing and praise, Yahweh set ambushes against the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were coming against Judah. And they were defeated</verse>


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<verse num="23">when the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to destroy and demolish <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. And when the inhabitants of Seir had made an end of them, each helped to destroy his comrade. </verse>


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<verse num="24">And Judah came against the watchtower of the wilderness. And they looked at the crowd, and behold, corpses were lying on the ground. There was none <transChange type="added">who had</transChange> escaped.</verse>


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<verse num="25">When Jehoshaphat came with his people to plunder their booty, they found among them in abundance possessions, corpses, and precious items. And they took plunder for themselves {until they could carry no more}.<note>Literally "until not carrying"</note> And they were three days in plundering the booty, for it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> abundant.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And on the fourth day, they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Berakah up to this day.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned, and Jehoshaphat <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at their head in returning to Jerusalem with joy, for Yahweh caused them to rejoice over their enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And they came to Jerusalem with harps, stringed instruments, and trumpets to the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the earth when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="30">So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at rest, since his God gave rest to him all around. </verse>


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<verse num="31">So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. <transChange type="added">He was</transChange> thirty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, to do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Only the high places were not removed. The people still had not yet set their heart on the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="34">Now the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first to the last, behold, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> written in the chronicles<note>Or "words"</note> of Jehu the son of Hanani, which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="35">And afterward Jehoshaphat the king of Judah joined with Ahaziah the king of Israel, who acted wickedly.</verse>


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<verse num="36">He joined with him to build ships to go to Tarshish. And they built the ships in Ezion Geber.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because of your joining with Ahaziah, Yahweh will break down your works." And the ships were destroyed and were not able to go to Tarshish. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And their father gave to them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuables, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the firstborn.</verse>


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<verse num="4">When Jehoram ascended to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and murdered all his brothers with the sword, and even some of the princes of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Jehoram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="7">But Yahweh was not willing to destroy the house of David on account of the covenant that he had {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> with David and since he had promised<note>Or "said"</note> to give a lamp to him and to his descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> {forever}.<note>Literally "all the days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="8">In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set up a king of their own.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> all around him and the commanders of his chariots.</verse>


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<verse num="10">So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah until this day. Then Libnah <transChange type="added">also</transChange> revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and he enticed the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful, and he led Judah astray.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And a letter from Elijah the prophet came to him, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or in the ways of Asa, the king of Judah,</verse>


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<verse num="13">but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful like the unfaithfulness of the house of Ahab, and have also murdered your brothers of the house of your father who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> better than you,</verse>


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<verse num="14">behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,</verse>


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<verse num="15">and you yourself <transChange type="added">will be afflicted</transChange> with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'" </verse>


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<verse num="16">And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {near}<note>Literally "at the hand of"</note> the Cushites against Jehoram.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son. </verse>


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<verse num="18">And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for <transChange type="added">which there was</transChange> no cure.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {after many days, at the end of two years},<note>Literally "for days from days and as the time went out to the end for two days"</note> his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed<note>Or "went"</note> with no <transChange type="added">one's</transChange> regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the band of men who had come with the Arabs to the camp had murdered all the older sons. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, reigned.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Ahaziah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> forty-two<note>The Septuagint reads "twenty-two" here</note> years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Athaliah, the daughter<note>Some translations render the term "granddaughter"</note> of Omri.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab <transChange type="added">had done</transChange>, for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He also walked in their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> at Ramoth-Gilead. And the Arameans wounded Joram.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds he had suffered at Ramah, when he made war against Hazael king of Aram.<note>Or "Syria"</note> And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sick. </verse>


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<verse num="7">But the downfall of Ahaziah was from God, <transChange type="added">and intended</transChange> to come to Joram. And when he came, he went out with Jehoram to Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Jehu was judging the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah who ministered to Ahaziah, and he killed them.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he searched for Ahaziah and captured him. And he was hiding in Samaria. And they brought him to Jehu and put him to death. And they buried him, for they said, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the descendant<note>Or "son"; Ahaziah was Jehoshaphat's grandson</note> of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with his whole heart." And the house of Ahab had no one to exercise power over the kingdom. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, she arose and murdered all the {royal descendants}<note>Literally "seed of the kingdom"</note> of the house of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="11">But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he was hidden with them in the house of God six years, but Athaliah reigned over the land. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took with him into a covenant <transChange type="added">relationship</transChange> the commanders of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zicri.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And they went around in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And all the assembly {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, "Behold, the son of the king shall reign as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.</verse>


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<verse num="4">This is the thing that you must do: one third of you priests and Levites {coming off duty on the Sabbath}<note>Literally "coming the Sabbath"</note> <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> gatekeepers at the entrances,</verse>


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<verse num="5">and one third at the house of the king, and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> in the courtyards of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Let no one enter into the house of Yahweh except the priests and the ministering Levites. They themselves may enter, for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy, but all the people shall keep the requirements of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out." </verse>


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<verse num="8">And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And they each took his men <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> {coming off duty on the Sabbath}<note>Literally "coming the Sabbath"</note> with {the ones going out to duty on the Sabbath},<note>Literally "going out the Sabbath"</note> for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the working groups.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Jehoiada the priest gave the spears and small shields that had belonged to King David that <transChange type="added">were in</transChange> the house of God to the commanders of hundreds.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he appointed all the people, each <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his weapon in his hand from the south side of the house to the north side of the house around the altar and the house.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then they brought out the son of the king and set upon him the crown and <transChange type="added">gave him</transChange> the statute and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, "{Long live the king}!"<note>Or "May the king live!"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="12">When Athaliah heard the sound of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And she looked and, behold, the king was standing by his column at the entrance, and the commanders and trumpeters beside the king, along with all the people of the land, rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with the instruments of song leading the praise. And Athaliah tore her garments and cried, "Conspiracy! Conspiracy!"</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds appointed over the troops, and he said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever goes after her shall be put to death with the sword." For the priest had said, "You must not kill her in the house of Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And Jehoiada {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Jehoiada placed appointees <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the {order of David}.<note>Literally "hands of David"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet <transChange type="added">after</transChange> Athaliah had been killed with the sword. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Joash <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zibiah from Beersheba.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.</verse>


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<verse num="5">So he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to strengthen the house of your God sufficiently year by year. Now you yourselves must hasten to the matter." But the Levites did not act with haste.</verse>


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<verse num="6">So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals. </verse>


book: 2Chr
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<verse num="8">Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
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<verse num="9">And {they issued a proclamation}<note>Literally "they gave a voice"</note> in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the tax <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Moses the servant of God <transChange type="added">had levied</transChange> upon Israel in the wilderness.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought <transChange type="added">their tax</transChange> and threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the chest until <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> finished.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And whenever he brought the chest to the appointee of the king by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> much money <transChange type="added">in it</transChange>, then the secretary of the king and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest, then they took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh. And they hired stonemasons and skilled craftsmen to restore the house of Yahweh, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="13">So those doing the work labored, and the restoration for the work made progress under their hand. And they restored the house of God to its position and strengthened it.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And when they had finished, they brought the remainder of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and they used it <transChange type="added">for</transChange> objects for the house of Yahweh, objects for the service and the burnt offerings, dishes, and objects of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh regularly, all the days of Jehoiada. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> one hundred and thirty years old at his death.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, for he did good in Israel and with respect to God and his house. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and served the Asherahs and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem on account of this guilt.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But he sent prophets among them, to bring them back to Yahweh. And they testified against them, and they did not obey. </verse>


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<verse num="20">Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus says God: 'Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.'"</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then they conspired against him and stoned him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="22">So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, "May Yahweh see and avenge!" </verse>


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<verse num="23">And it happened at the turn of the year <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the army of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> went up against him, and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the commanders of the people from among the people, and all the war booty they sent to the king of Damascus.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Though the army of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> And they inflicted punishment on Joash. </verse>


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<verse num="25">And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sons<note>The Septuagint reads "son"</note> of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath, the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, the Moabite.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> his sons, the many oracles against him, and <transChange type="added">his repair of</transChange> the foundation of the house of God, behold, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> written in the story of the scroll of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Amaziah was twenty-five years old <transChange type="added">when</transChange> he became king. And he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jehoaddan from Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as his reign was strengthened, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But he did not put their children to death, according to <transChange type="added">what</transChange> is written in the law, in the scroll of Moses, where Yahweh commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death on account of the sons, and the sons shall not be put to death on account of the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin." </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Amaziah assembled <transChange type="added">the men of</transChange> Judah and set them by {families}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> house of the fathers"</note> under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. And he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> three hundred thousand chosen for going out to battle, able <transChange type="added">with</transChange> spear and shield.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he hired from Israel one hundred thousand strong, mighty warriors for one hundred talents. </verse>


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<verse num="7">But a man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, all the Ephraimites.</verse>


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<verse num="8">But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle <transChange type="added">else</transChange> God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Amaziah said to the man of God, "Now what <transChange type="added">should I</transChange> do with the one hundred talents that I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God said, "{Yahweh is able to give}<note>Literally "There is to Yahweh to give"</note> to you more than this."</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Amaziah dismissed the troops that came to him from Ephraim to go to their home.<note>Or "their place"</note> And {they became very angry}<note>Literally "their noses became very hot"</note> with Judah, and they returned to their home {in great anger}.<note>Literally "in hotness of nose"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Amaziah strengthened himself, and leading his army, he went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the Valley of Salt. And he struck <transChange type="added">down</transChange> ten thousand men<note>Or "sons"</note> of Seir.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Now the {troops}<note>Literally "the sons of the troop"</note> captured ten thousand <transChange type="added">others</transChange> alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock. So all of them were smashed <transChange type="added">to pieces</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="13">As for the {troops}<note>Literally "sons of the troop"</note> Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-Horon. And they struck <transChange type="added">down</transChange> three thousand of them and plundered much booty. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after Amaziah came <transChange type="added">back</transChange> from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them.</verse>


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<verse num="15">So {Yahweh became very angry}<note>Literally "Yahweh's nose became very hot"</note> with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people who could not deliver their own people from your hand?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> while he was speaking to him, he said to him, "Have we appointed you as a counselor to the king? Stop--{why should you be killed}?"<note>Literally "why shall he strike you?"</note> So the prophet stopped and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice." </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come,<note>This translation follows the Qere reading</note> {let us face one another}.<note>Literally "let us look at faces"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife.' But a wild animal of the field that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Look, you say <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now remain at your home. Why stir up disaster that you fall, you and Judah with you?" </verse>


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<verse num="20">But Amaziah did not listen, for it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from God that he might give them into the hand <transChange type="added">of enemies</transChange>, because they sought the gods of Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So Joash the king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah the king of Judah {faced one another}<note>Literally "looked at one another's faces"</note> at Beth-Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Judah was defeated before Israel, and each <transChange type="added">man</transChange> fled to his tent.</verse>


book: 2Chr
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<verse num="23">And Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-Shemesh. And they brought him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then with all the gold and silver, all the objects found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the storehouses of the house of the king, and {the hostages},<note>Literally "the sons of the pledges"</note> he returned to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="25">And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="27">And from the time that Amaziah turned away from Yahweh, they had plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And they carried him on the horses and buried him with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of Judah. </verse>


book: 2Chr
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<verse num="1">Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sixteen years old) and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He built Elath and returned it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">Uzziah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Yecoliah of Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he did what <transChange type="added">was</transChange> right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he began to seek<note>Or "was seeking"</note> God in the days of Zechariah who was teaching in visions of God. And {whenever}<note>Literally "in the days"</note> he sought Yahweh God made him have success. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And he went out and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who were living in Gur-Baal and Meunim.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his fame<note>Or "name"</note> went out to the boundary<note>Literally "to coming in"</note> of Egypt, for he became {very strong}.<note>Literally "to above"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and he strengthened them.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Uzziah had troops {trained and ready for war}<note>Literally "making war, going out to fight"</note> in divisions according to the number of their enrollment at the hand of Jeuel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah of the king's commanders.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The whole number of the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for mighty warriors of strength <transChange type="added">was</transChange> two thousand six hundred.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And under their hand <transChange type="added">were</transChange> army troops <transChange type="added">numbering</transChange> three hundred and seven thousand five hundred who could make war with power and strength to help the king against an enemy.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Uzziah prepared small shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the whole army.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he made siege machines in Jerusalem designed <transChange type="added">by</transChange> skillful men to be <transChange type="added">set</transChange> upon the towers and upon the corners to shoot arrows and large slingstones. And his fame<note>Or "name"</note> went out far, for he helped marvelously, for he was strong. </verse>


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<verse num="16">But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Azariah the priest, along with eighty strong priests with him, went in after him.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And they stood against King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> for the priests, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. There will be no honor for you from Yahweh God."</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense.</verse>


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<verse num="20">When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. </verse>


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<verse num="22">Now the remainder of the words of Uzziah, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Uzziah slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the burial field which belonged to the kings, because, they said, "He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> leprous." And Jotham his son reigned in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Jotham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done--only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and {he did much restoration}<note>Literally "he built much"</note> on the wall of Ophel.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built forts and towers in the wooded places.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Now he fought with the king of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and prevailed against them. And the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> gave to him in that year one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand <transChange type="added">measures of</transChange> barley. This <transChange type="added">is what</transChange> the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> rendered to him, as well as in the second and third year.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Jotham strengthened himself, for he established his ways before Yahweh his God. </verse>


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<verse num="7">Now the remainder of the words of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="8">He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Jotham slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Ahaz <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh like David his ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made molten idols for the Baals.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he himself burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the detestable <transChange type="added">practices</transChange> of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every flourishing tree. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Yahweh his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> who defeated him and captured many captives from him and brought <transChange type="added">them to</transChange> Damascus. Moreover, he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he defeated him by a great attack.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah, all men of strength, because they forsook Yahweh the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And Zikri, a mighty warrior of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the commander of the house, and Elkanah the second to the king.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the Israelites captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, sons, and daughters. And they also plundered much booty from them and brought the booty to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Now a prophet of Yahweh was there; Oded <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, "Look, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> on account of the anger of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> against Judah <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he gave them into your hands, and you killed them in a rage reaching to the heavens.</verse>


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<verse num="10">So now, you yourselves plan to subdue people of Judah and Jerusalem as slaves and female servants for yourselves. {Is there not also guilt on your part}<note>Literally "Is there not only you with yourselves guilt?"</note> against Yahweh your God?</verse>


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<verse num="11">So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against you." </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then men from the heads of Ephraim--Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai--stood against those returning from the fight.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And they said to them, "You shall not bring the captives here, for <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> as guilt <transChange type="added">against</transChange> Yahweh upon us. You yourselves plan to add to our sins and to our guilt, but our guilt is very great, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> great anger against Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So the soldiers left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then the men designated by name arose and took the captives and from the plunder clothed all their nakedness. So they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food to eat, gave them water to drink, anointed them, and guided them with the donkeys <transChange type="added">provided</transChange> for all those who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of the palm trees, next to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. </verse>


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<verse num="18">And the Philistines sent raids into the cities of the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah. And they captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Socoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.</verse>


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<verse num="19">For Yahweh subdued Judah for the sake of Ahaz, king of Israel, for he created disorder in Judah and acted unfaithfully against Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Tiglath-Pileser<note>The Hebrew reads "Tilgath-Pilneser"</note> the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, {instead of helping him},<note>Literally "and did not strengthen him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">for Ahaz took a portion <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and the princes, and he gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the king of Assyria, but it was no help to him. </verse>


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<verse num="22">And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="23">He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, "Because the gods of the king of Aram<note>Or "Syria"</note> helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me." But they were {a disaster}<note>Literally "a cause of stumbling"</note> to him and to all Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then Ahaz gathered the objects of the house of God, and he cut the objects of the house of God to pieces. And he shut the doors of the house of Yahweh and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And {in every city}<note>Literally "in all city and city"</note> of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and he provoked Yahweh, the God of his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to anger. </verse>


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<verse num="26">Now the remainder of his words and all his ways, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Ahaz slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the burial site of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Hezekiah became king when he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. </verse>


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<verse num="3">In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them into the eastern square.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he said to them, "Hear me, O Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and bring out the defilement from the sanctuary.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> acted unfaithfully and did evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the dwelling place of Yahweh. {They have turned their backs}<note>Literally "And they have given back"</note> <transChange type="added">on it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="7">They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. And they did not burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the wrath of Yahweh was upon Judah and Jerusalem. And he made them as an abhorrence, as a desolation and an object of scorn, as you see with your own eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in captivity on account of this.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now {it is in my heart}<note>Literally "with my heart"</note> to {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and incense burners." </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then the Levites arose--Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the Kohathites; and Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; and Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah, from the Gershonites.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; and from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;</verse>


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<verse num="14">and from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Heman: Jeiel and Shimei; and from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel--</verse>


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<verse num="15">and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the priests went into the inner <transChange type="added">part</transChange> of the house of Yahweh to purify <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. And they brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of Yahweh <transChange type="added">out</transChange> to the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> outside to the Wadi<note>Or "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kidron.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And they went into the inner <transChange type="added">part</transChange> to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh: the altar of burnt offering, all its objects, the table of the rows <transChange type="added">of bread</transChange> and all its objects,</verse>


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<verse num="19">and all the objects that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he sinned, we have prepared and sanctified. Look, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before the altar of Yahweh." </verse>


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<verse num="20">Then King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and he went up to the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a purification offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron, the priests, to offer <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the altar of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and threw it toward the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and threw the blood toward the altar, and then they slaughtered the lambs and threw the blood toward the altar.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then they brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid hands upon them.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And the priest killed them and offered their blood against the altar to make atonement for all Israel, for the king had commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="25">And he stood the Levites <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Yahweh with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David and Gad, the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet, for the command <transChange type="added">was</transChange> by the hand of Yahweh by the hand of his prophets.</verse>


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<verse num="26">When the Levites stood with the objects of David and the priests with the trumpets,</verse>


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<verse num="27">Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began, and also the trumpets, at the hands of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> instruments of David king of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then all the assembly bowed down, and the song was sung, and the trumpeters trumpeted--all <transChange type="added">together</transChange> until the end of the burnt offering.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And when the offering was finished, the king and all who were found with him knelt down and bowed themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then King Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to praise Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they offered praise with joy, and they bowed down and worshiped. </verse>


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<verse num="31">Then Hezekiah answered and said, "Now {you have consecrated yourselves}<note>Literally "you have filled your hands"</note> to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh!" And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> willing in heart <transChange type="added">brought</transChange> burnt offerings.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And the number of burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs--all these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> to offer to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And the consecrated offerings of cattle <transChange type="added">were</transChange> six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep.</verse>


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<verse num="34">But the priests were too few, and they were not able to offer all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, strengthened them to finish the work, and until the <transChange type="added">rest of</transChange> the priests consecrated themselves. (For the Levites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {more conscientious}<note>Literally "more upright of heart"</note> to sanctify themselves than the priests.)</verse>


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<verse num="35">And beside the many burnt offerings <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the fat of the peace offerings and the libations for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of Yahweh was established.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had established with the people, for the matter happened suddenly. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month--</verse>


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<verse num="3">but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves {in sufficient numbers},<note>Literally "for enough"</note> and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem--</verse>


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<verse num="4">and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly.</verse>


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<verse num="5">So they let the decree stand, {to make a proclamation}<note>Literally "to spread a voice"</note> throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the runners went with the letter from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah according to the command of the king, saying, "O sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> so that he made them as a desolation, as you see.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers,<note>Or "ancestors"</note> but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children <transChange type="added">will find</transChange> compassion before their captors and return to this land, for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him." </verse>


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<verse num="10">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the runners were passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and up to Zebulun, but they were laughing at them and mocking them.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Only men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The hand of God was also upon Judah, to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and the princes concerning the word of Yahweh. </verse>


book: 2Chr
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<verse num="13">So many people gathered in Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> a very great assembly.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they rose up and removed the altars that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Jerusalem. And they removed all the incense altars and threw <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away in the Wadi<note>Or "valley"; a wadi is a valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kidron.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were disgraced, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then they stood at their positions according to custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests were sprinkling the blood from the hand of the Levites.</verse>


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<verse num="17">For <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> many in the assembly who did not consecrate themselves, so the Levites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the killing of the Passover sacrifices for all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not clean, to consecrate <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="18">For a majority of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves. But they ate the Passover sacrifice {otherwise than prescribed},<note>Literally "in not as it is written"</note> but Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh make atonement unto</verse>


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<verse num="19">everyone whose heart is set to seek God, Yahweh the God of his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> though not according to the cleansing for the sanctuary."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who were found in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites and the priests were offering praise to Yahweh day by day, with powerful instruments to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites {who were skilled at service}<note>Literally "who were showing good understanding"</note> to Yahweh. So they ate the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then the whole assembly decided to make seven more days <transChange type="added">of feasting</transChange>, so they made seven <transChange type="added">more</transChange> days with joy,</verse>


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<verse num="24">for Hezekiah the king of Judah had {provided}<note>Literally "lifted up"</note> one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the princes {provided}<note>Literally "lifted up"</note> one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly. And many priests consecrated themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the whole assembly of Judah, the priests and the Levites, all the assembly who had come from the land of Israel, and those living in Judah rejoiced.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing such as this in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh {to the very last one}.<note>Literally "until finishing"</note> Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to their cities. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And Hezekiah appointed working groups of the priests and the Levites, each according to their divisions, {according to the service for priests and Levites},<note>Literally "according to the mouth of his service, for priests and Levites"</note> for burnt offerings, for peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camps of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the gift of the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> out of his own possessions for the burnt offerings--the burnt offerings for the morning and the evening and for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and appointed feasts, as is written in the law of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then he said to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give a gift for the priests and the Levites, so that they might be strong in the law of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the word spread. The Israelites gave abundantly <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the firstfruits of grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> grains from the field. And they brought tithes of everything in abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep and a tithe of consecrated objects to Yahweh their God. And they gave heaps <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> heaps.</verse>


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<verse num="7">In the third month the heaps began to pile up, and in the seventh month they ceased.</verse>


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<verse num="8">When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Hezekiah questioned<note>Or "sought"</note> the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, saying, "Since the offerings began to be brought to the house of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">we have</transChange> eaten and been satisfied, and have much to spare, for Yahweh has blessed his people. Now <transChange type="added">see</transChange> this abundant remainder!" </verse>


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<verse num="11">And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh, and they were prepared.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then they brought the offerings and tithes and holy objects faithfully. And over them <transChange type="added">as</transChange> leader <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Conaniah the Levite. And Shimei his brother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> second <transChange type="added">in rank</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nathan, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> chief officers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei, his brother, by appointment of King Hezekiah. And Azaraiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> leader of the house of God.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now Kore the son of Imlah, the Levite, the gatekeeper of the east gate <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the freewill offerings of God, to give offerings to Yahweh and the most holy things.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And at his hand <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {entrusted}<note>Literally "in faithfulness"</note> to give to their brothers by working groups, according to the eldest <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the youngest,</verse>


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<verse num="16">besides their enrollment by genealogy, to males from three years old and upward, to all who came into the house of Yahweh, {as each day required}<note>Literally "for the word of the day by his day"</note> for their service in their posts according to their working groups.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the enrollment of the priests <transChange type="added">was</transChange> according to the house of their fathers, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, according to their posts by their working groups.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> enrolled with all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters for the whole assembly because of their faithfulness. And they sanctified themselves in holiness.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron, the priests, <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, {in each and every one of their cities}<note>Literally "in every city and the city"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> men who were designated by name to give shares to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled among the Levites. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> right and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> faithful before Yahweh his God.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered. </verse>


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<verse num="1">After these things and these <transChange type="added">acts of</transChange> faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came, and he came against Judah. And he encamped against the fortified cities and planned to break them down for himself.</verse>


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<verse num="2">When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> his face <transChange type="added">was set</transChange> for battle against Jerusalem,</verse>


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<verse num="3">he took counsel with his commanders and his mighty warriors to block off the waters of the springs that <transChange type="added">came</transChange> from outside the city, and they helped him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then many people were gathered, and they blocked off all the springs and the river that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?"</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon <transChange type="added">them</transChange> and another wall {outside}.<note>Literally "toward the street"</note> And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he appointed commanders for battle over the people and gathered them to himself into the public square of the gate of the city. And he spoke to their hearts, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="7">"Be strong! Be courageous! Do not fear and do not be dismayed before the king of Assyria and before all the crowd that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with him, for <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> more with us than with him.</verse>


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<verse num="8">With him <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the arm of flesh, and with us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence with the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah. </verse>


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<verse num="9">After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he and all his armies with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> against Lachish) to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all of Judah that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Jerusalem, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="10">"Thus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: 'On what <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you relying that <transChange type="added">you are</transChange> dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem?</verse>


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<verse num="11">Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you <transChange type="added">up</transChange> to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"?</verse>


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<verse num="12">Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"?</verse>


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<verse num="13">Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand?</verse>


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<verse num="14">Who among all the gods of those nations whom my ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God will be able to save you from my hand?</verse>


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<verse num="15">So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you. Do not let him urge you according to this. Do not put trust in him, for no god of any nation and kingdom has been able to save his people from my hand and from the hand of my ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> Surely then your God will not save you from my hand!'" </verse>


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<verse num="16">And still more his servants said against Yahweh God and against Hezekiah his servant.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he wrote letters to treat Yahweh the God of Israel with contempt and spoke against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the earth who did not save their people from my hand, so likewise the God of Hezekiah will not save his people from my hand."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then they called with a great voice in Judean to the people of Jerusalem who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> upon the wall to frighten them and terrify them, so that they could take the city captive.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind. </verse>


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<verse num="20">Then King Hezekiah and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this. And they cried to the heavens.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword.</verse>


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<verse num="22">So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all <transChange type="added">their enemies</transChange>, and gave them rest all around.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And many brought tribute to Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations thereafter. </verse>


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<verse num="24">In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit <transChange type="added">placed</transChange> upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="26">But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. </verse>


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<verse num="27">And Hezekiah had very much wealth and honor, and he made storehouses for himself for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, small shields, and all <transChange type="added">sorts of</transChange> desirable objects;</verse>


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<verse num="28">and storage buildings for the yield of grain, new wine, and olive oil; and animal stalls for all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> animals, and animals and herds for animal stalls.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And this same Hezekiah blocked off the flow of the waters of the upper Gihon, and directed them down the west <transChange type="added">side</transChange> of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And thus <transChange type="added">in the matter of</transChange> the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to know all <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> in his heart. </verse>


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<verse num="32">Now the remainder of the words of Hezekiah and his loyal love, behold, they are written in the visions of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And Hezekiah slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the upper <transChange type="added">part</transChange> of the burial sites of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place. </verse>


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


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<verse num="2">And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to the detestable things of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And {he rebuilt}<note>Literally "returned and built"</note> the high places that Hezekiah his father broke down, and he set up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to the host of heaven and served them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem my name shall be forever."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he himself burned his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom. And he practiced sorcery and divination, and he engaged in witchcraft and dealt with mediums and spiritists. And he did much evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he placed the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And I will {never}<note>Literally "not continue to"</note> remove the foot of Israel from upon the land that I appointed to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> if only you will take care to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the regulations, and the judgments by the hand of Moses."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">So Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria upon them, and they took Manasseh captive with hooks, and they bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. </verse>


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<verse num="14">Then afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of the Gihon in the valley, and for the entrance into the Gate of the Fishes. And it encircled the Ophel and raised it very high. Then he placed strong commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he restored the altar of Yahweh and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings upon it. And he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Nevertheless, the people offered at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Now the remainder of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the words of the kings of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And his prayer, and <transChange type="added">how</transChange> he<note>That is, God</note> responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And Manasseh slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son became king in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Amon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And he did what <transChange type="added">was</transChange> evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the idols that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, but Amon himself multiplied <transChange type="added">his</transChange> guilt.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But the people of the land struck down all who conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Josiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the ways of David his ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> and did not deviate <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the right or <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the left.</verse>


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<verse num="3">In the eighth year of his reign, while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note> And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to powder and sprinkled <transChange type="added">the dust</transChange> over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,</verse>


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<verse num="7">he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Now in the eighteenth year of his reign <transChange type="added">after</transChange> he purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the commander of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave the money that was brought for the house of God, which the Levites, the guardians of the threshold, had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the whole remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they delivered <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the hand of the workmen who were appointed in the house of Yahweh, and they <transChange type="added">in turn</transChange> gave it to those doing the work who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at work in the house of Yahweh, to repair <transChange type="added">and</transChange> restore the house.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And they dispensed<note>Or "gave"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the skilled craftsmen and the builders to buy stone <transChange type="added">for</transChange> hewing and timber for the seams and for binding the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the men did the work faithfully. Over them as supervisors <transChange type="added">were</transChange> appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites. And <transChange type="added">other</transChange> Levites, all who were skilled in instruments of song,</verse>


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<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the porters and were directing all who worked {on each task}.<note>Literally "for service and service"</note> And some of the Levites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And when they brought out the money that had been brought <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found a scroll of the law of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found a scroll of the law in the house of Yahweh!" Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and {also informed}<note>Literally "returned again a word to"</note> the king, saying, "All that was put into the hand of your servants they are doing.</verse>


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<verse num="17">They have dispensed<note>Or "emptied out"</note> the money which was found in the house of Yahweh and have put it into the hand of the overseers and those doing the work."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Shaphan the scribe reported to the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave to me a scroll." Then Shaphan read from it before the king.</verse>


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<verse num="20">and the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="21">"Go! Seek Yahweh on my behalf and on behalf of those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the scroll that was found, for the anger of Yahweh that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> poured out on us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great, because our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do all that is written in this scroll." </verse>


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<verse num="22">Then Hilkiah and those whom the king <transChange type="added">had sent</transChange> went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments. (Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district.) And they spoke to her concerning this.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And she said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Say to the man who sent you all to me:</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="24">"Thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants--all the curses written in the scroll that were read before the king of Judah--</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="25">because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands. And my wrath will be poured out on this place and it will not be quenched.'</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="26">But to the king of Judah who sent you to seek Yahweh, thus shall you say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: <transChange type="added">As for</transChange> the words which you heard,</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="27">because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,' {declares}<note>Literally "declaration of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="28">'Behold, I will gather you to your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster that I am bringing upon this place.'" '" </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="29">Then they sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to the king, and he gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="30">And the king went up to the house of Yahweh with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with the priests and the Levites--all the people from great to small--and they read in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="31">And the king stood at his position. And he made the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commands and statutes and regulations with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> written on this scroll.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="32">Then he obligated<note>Or "stood"</note> all who were found in Jerusalem and in Benjamin, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would do according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="33">And Josiah removed all the detestable things from the whole land that belonged to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and obligated<note>Or "made"</note> all who were found in Israel to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not turn aside from following<note>Or "after"</note> Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="1">Josiah kept<note>Or "made"</note> the Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover <transChange type="added">sacrifice</transChange> on the fourteenth day of the first month.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="2">And he set the priests at their posts and encouraged them in the service of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="3">And he said to the Levites who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> teaching all Israel, who were sanctified to Yahweh, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. There is no <transChange type="added">need</transChange> to carry it on <transChange type="added">your</transChange> shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="4">And prepare yourselves according to {your families},<note>Literally "the house of your fathers"</note> according to your working groups, according to the decree<note>Or "writing"</note> of David king of Israel and according to the decree<note>Or "writing"</note> of Solomon his son.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="5">And stand in the sanctuary according to the clans of {your families}<note>Literally "the house of your fathers"</note> for your brothers, the {lay people},<note>Literally "sons of the people"</note> and a part of the {family}<note>Literally "house of the father"</note> of the Levites.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="6">And slaughter the Passover <transChange type="added">lamb</transChange> and consecrate yourself and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="7">Then Josiah provided for the {lay people}<note>Literally "sons of the people"</note> sheep, lambs, and young goats, all for the Passover for all who were found <transChange type="added">there</transChange>, to the sum of thirty thousand, along with three thousand bulls. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the possession of the king.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="8">And his officials contributed a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, commanders of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover <transChange type="added">lambs</transChange> and three hundred bulls.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="9">Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jehozabad, commanders of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover <transChange type="added">lambs</transChange> and five hundred bulls. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="11">And they slaughtered the Passover <transChange type="added">lamb</transChange>, and the priests sprinkled <transChange type="added">the blood</transChange> from their hand, and the Levites flayed <transChange type="added">the sacrifices</transChange>.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="12">And they set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the clans of the {families}<note>Literally "house of the fathers"</note> for the {lay people},<note>Literally "sons of the people"</note> to offer to Yahweh according to what is written in the scroll of Moses. And thus they did with the bulls.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="13">Then they roasted the Passover <transChange type="added">lamb</transChange> in the fire according to the ordinance. And they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in kettles, and in dishes and brought it quickly to the {lay people}.<note>Literally "sons of the people"</note></verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="14">And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron, <transChange type="added">were busy</transChange> with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And the singers, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at their stations according to the decree<note>Or "command"</note> of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the seer of the king. And the gatekeepers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at {each gate}.<note>Literally "gate to gate"</note> They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites had made preparations for them. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="16">So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to keep<note>Or "make"</note> the Passover and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the command of King Josiah.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="17">And the Israelites who were present kept<note>Or "made"</note> the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="18">And there was no Passover like it kept<note>Or "made"</note> in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. And none of the kings of Israel kept<note>Or "made"</note> a Passover like that which Josiah and the priests and the Levites, and all of Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, kept.<note>Or "made"</note></verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="19">In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.<note>Or "made"</note> </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="20">After all of this that Josiah had prepared <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the temple,<note>Or "house"</note> Neco the king of Egypt went up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went up to meet him.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="21">And he<note>That is, Neco</note> sent messengers to him, saying, "{What is there between us},<note>Literally "What to me and to you"</note> O king of Judah? <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> not against you yourself this day, but against the house making war against me. And God has commanded me to make haste. Stop <transChange type="added">opposing</transChange> God, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me that he will not destroy you."</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="22">But Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he disguised himself to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and he went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="23">And the archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded."</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="24">So his servants took him out of the chariot and transported him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the burial sites of his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned over Josiah.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="25">And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="26">Now the remainder of the words of Josiah and his loyal love <transChange type="added">for</transChange> what is written in the law of Yahweh</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="27">and his words, <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the first <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="1">And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="2">Jehoahaz <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="3">Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid a tribute upon the land <transChange type="added">of</transChange> one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="4">And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and brought him to Egypt. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="5">Jehoiakim <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="6">Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="7">And Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon the objects of the house of Yahweh and put them into the temple in Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="8">Now the remainder of the words of Jehoiakim and the detestable things that he did and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="9">Jehoiachin <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="10">And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="11">Zedekiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="12">And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet {who spoke for}<note>Literally "from the mouth of"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="13">And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="14">All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="15">And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="16">But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="17">Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="18">And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="19">And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries.</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="20">And he took {those who escaped the sword}<note>Literally "the remainder from the sword"</note> to Babylon. And they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="21">to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. </verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="22">And in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he {made a proclamation}<note>Literally "extended a voice"</note> throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:</verse>


book: 2Chr
content:
<verse num="23">"Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: 'Yahweh the God of heaven has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him at Jerusalem, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Judah. Whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among you from all his people, may Yahweh his God go up with him.'" </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia and he sent a message to all of his kingdom and also <transChange type="added">put the message</transChange> in writing: </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="2">"Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: Yahweh, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he himself has appointed me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">Whoever among you <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> from all of his people, may his God be with him and may he go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may he build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel. He is the God who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="4">And let every survivor, from wherever he {resides}<note>Literally "resides as a foreigner"</note> be assisted by the men of that place with silver and gold, with possessions and domestic animals, and with the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">So the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> for Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites--to all whose spirit God had stirred--<transChange type="added">prepared</transChange> to go up and build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">And all of their neighbors {helped them}<note>Literally "helped with their hands"</note> with objects of silver, gold, possessions, domestic animal<transChange type="added">s</transChange>, and with valuable gifts--besides all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> freewill offering.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">And Cyrus the king brought out the objects of the house of Yahweh that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">Cyrus the king of Persia let them go out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">Now these were the inventories: thirty gold metal dishes, one thousand silver metal dishes, twenty-nine vessels,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="10">thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten matching silver metal bowls, and one thousand other objects.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">All of the objects of gold and silver metal <transChange type="added">were</transChange> five thousand four hundred. All this Sheshbazzar brought up along with the exiles from Babylonia to Jerusalem. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">Now these were the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of the province who came up from the captivity of the exile whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> city.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="2">They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="4">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pahath-moab, <transChange type="added">particularly</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Azgad, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="16">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ater, <transChange type="added">particularly</transChange> of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="19">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="21">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="25">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Kiriath Αrim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="26">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="31">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="33">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="35">the people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="36">The priests: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="38">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven;</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="40">The Levites: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hodaviah, seventy-four. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="41">The singers: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="42">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of the gatekeepers: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shallum, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ater, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Talmon, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Akkub, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hatita, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shobai; in total one hundred and thirty-nine. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="43">The temple servants: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ziha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hasupha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Tabbaoth,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="44">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Keros, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Siaha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Padon,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="45">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lebanah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hagabah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Akkub,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="46">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hagab, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shamlai, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hanan,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="47">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Giddel, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gahar, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reaiah,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="48">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Rezin, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nekoda, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gazzam,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="49">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Uzza, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Paseah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Besai,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="50">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asnah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Meunim, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nephisim,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="51">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bakbuk, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hakupha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Harhur,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="52">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bazluth, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Mehida, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Harsha,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="53">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Barkos, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Sisera, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Temah,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="54">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Neziah, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hatipha. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="55">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Solomon's servants: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Sotai, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hassophereth, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Peruda,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="56">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jaalah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Darkon, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Giddel,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="57">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shephatiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hattil, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ami. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="58">All the temple servants and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="59">Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers' household and their descent, if they were from Israel:</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="60">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Delaiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Tobiah, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="61">And from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of the priests: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Habaiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hakkoz, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="62">These sought their record in the genealogy <transChange type="added">records</transChange>, but they were not found, and {were excluded from the priesthood as unclean}.<note>Literally "they were unclean from the priesthood"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="63">The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuary<note>Or "most holy things"</note> until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="65">apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="66">Their horses <transChange type="added">numbered</transChange> seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules <transChange type="added">numbered</transChange> two hundred and forty-five,</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="67">their camels <transChange type="added">numbered</transChange> four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys <transChange type="added">numbered</transChange> six thousand seven hundred and twenty. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="68">When <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the heads of {families}<note>Literally "the fathers"</note> came to the house of Yahweh that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Jerusalem, they gave freewill offerings for the house of God to erect it on its place.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="69">According to their ability they gave to the treasury room for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly tunics. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="70">The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived <transChange type="added">in Jerusalem</transChange>, and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants <transChange type="added">lived</transChange> in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="1">Now the seventh month drew near and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the cities, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the people gathered as {one}<note>Literally "one man"</note> in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="2">And Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers the priests stood up, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers built the altar of the God of Israel, in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="3">They set up the altar on its foundations, because {they were in terror}<note>Literally "in terror before them"</note> because of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it for Yahweh, burnt offerings for the morning and the evening.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="4">And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and <transChange type="added">offered</transChange> burnt offerings day by day in number according to the ordinance {as described for each day}.<note>Literally "the daily word on its day"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="5">After <transChange type="added">this, they presented</transChange> the daily sacrifice of burnt offerings, <transChange type="added">the offerings</transChange> for the New Moon Festival, and for all of the appointed times consecrated for Yahweh and for all who gave a freewill offering to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="6">From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh. But the temple of Yahweh was not yet founded.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="7">So they gave money to the stone craftsmen and skilled craftsmen, and food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the authorization over them of Cyrus king of Persia. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">In the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jehozadak began <transChange type="added">their work</transChange>, and the remainder of their brothers the priests and the Levites and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem. They appointed the Levites {from twenty years and older}<note>Literally "a son of twenty years and above"</note> to direct the work of the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="9">And Jeshua <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons--the sons of Judah--together directed the workers in the house of God, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers the Levites. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="10">And the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, and the priests <transChange type="added">in their</transChange> apparel with the trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with the cymbals, were positioned to praise Yahweh, {as described by}<note>Literally "by the hands of"</note> King David of Israel.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="11">And they {sang responsively},<note>Literally "they answered"</note> with praising and thanksgiving to Yahweh <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "For he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting for Israel." </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="12">But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many {shouted aloud with joy}.<note>Literally "exalted with voice in joy with a shout"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="13">No person could distinguish the sound of joyful acclaim from the sound of people weeping, for the people shouted with great joyful acclaim and the sound was heard from afar. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the {returned exiles}<note>Literally "the sons of the exile"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> building a temple for Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="2">And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing <transChange type="added">to him</transChange> from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="3">But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of Israel said to them, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> not for you but for us to build a house for our God. For we ourselves alone will build <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for Yahweh the God of Israel, just as Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us." </verse>


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<verse num="4">Then the people of the land discouraged {the people of Judah}<note>Literally "the hands of the people of Judah"</note> and made them afraid to build</verse>


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<verse num="5">and bribed officials against them to frustrate their plan for all the days of Cyrus king of Persia until the reign of Darius king of Persia. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="6">In the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="7">And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">Rehum the royal officer and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="9">(then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites)</verse>


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<verse num="10">and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and the rest of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River) and now</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="12">be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">Now since we eat the salt of the palace and the dishonor of the king is not proper for us to see, we send and make <transChange type="added">this</transChange> known to the king,</verse>


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<verse num="15">so that it may be investigated in the book of records of your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> You will find in the book of records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and they have rebelled in its midst from ancient times. Because of that this city was destroyed.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="16">We make known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, you will have nothing in <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River." </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="17">The king sent a reply: "To Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and the rest <transChange type="added">of the province</transChange> Beyond the River, greetings. And now</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="18">the letter that you sent to us has been translated <transChange type="added">and</transChange> read before me.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="19">And {I issued}<note>Literally "by my means made"</note> a decree, and they searched and found that this city from ancient days revolted against kings, and rebellion and sedition has been made in it.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="20">Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, <transChange type="added">governing</transChange> all <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, to whom tribute, duty, and tax has been given.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="21">So now, issue forth a decree that these men stop and this city not be built, until a decree is issued from me.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="22">And be careful not to be negligent on this matter. Why should damage grow to hurt kings?" </verse>


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<verse num="23">Then when a copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates they returned in a hurry to Jerusalem against the Jews and they stopped them by force and power.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="24">Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in {Judah}<note>Literally "Jehud"</note> and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="2">Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak set out and began to build the house of God that is in Jerusalem. And with them the prophets of God <transChange type="added">were</transChange> helping them. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="3">At the same time Tattenai, governor of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: "Who issued you all a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="4">Then we<note>Hebrew is first person plural</note> asked them this: "What are the names of the men who are building this building?"</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="5">And the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report came to Darius, and then <transChange type="added">answer</transChange> was received. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="6">The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the envoys who were in <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River sent to Darius the king.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">They sent to him the report {in which was written as follows}:<note>Literally "and like this was written in its middle"</note> "To Darius the king, all peace.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">Then we asked those elders and said this to them, 'Who issued forth to you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?'</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="10">We also asked them their names to make them known to you, that we might write down the {name of their leaders}.<note>Literally "name of the men at their head"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="11">And this is the answer they returned to us: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> a great king of Israel had built and finished.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">But because our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon's reign he issued forth a decree to build this house of God.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">Also, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took away from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylonia, King Cyrus removed them from the temple in Babylonia and they were given to Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">He said to him, 'Take these vessels. Go put them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be built on its site.'</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="16">Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that <transChange type="added">time</transChange> until now it is being built, but not yet finished.'</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">And now, if it seems good for the king, let it be investigated in the house of the treasury of the king in Babylonia <transChange type="added">to see</transChange> if a decree was issued forth from King Cyrus to build this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send to us his desire on this matter." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">Then King Darius issued forth a decree, and they searched the house of the treasury of scrolls being stored in Babylonia.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="2">But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, "A record.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="4">with three layers of great stones and a layer of timber. Let the new expenses be paid from the house of the king.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="5">Also, let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylonia, be returned and brought to the temple in Jerusalem to its place. Put them in the house of God." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">"Now then, Tattenai governor of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates, the envoys who are in <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River--keep far away from there.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">Leave this work of the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its site.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">And I issue forth a decree for what you should do for these elders of the Jews to build this house of God. The full expense will be paid to these men from the riches of the king from the taxes of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, without delay.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">Whatever may be needed--{young bulls},<note>Literally "the sons of young bulls"</note> young rams, sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil for the priests in Jerusalem--let it be given to them day by day with no negligence,</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="10">that they may offer incense offerings to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">Furthermore, I issue forth a decree that if any person violates this decree, let a beam be pulled out from his house and let him be impaled on it. And let his house be made a pile of rubble on <transChange type="added">account of</transChange> this.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">May the God who has set his name there overthrow any king or people who sets his hand to alter <transChange type="added">or</transChange> to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, issue forth a decree. Let it be done with diligence." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">Then Tattenai the governor of the <transChange type="added">province</transChange> Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates consequently did with diligence what Darius the king ordered.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">So the elders of the Jews were building and prospering, through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building by the command of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="16">And the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the {returned exiles}<note>Literally "sons of the exile"</note> celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">And they offered during the dedication of this house of God one hundred young bulls, two hundred young rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering for Israel <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> the number of the tribes of Israel.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="18">Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the work of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. </verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="19">On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles observed the Passover feast.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="20">For the priests and Levites together had consecrated themselves; all of them were clean. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice for all of the returned exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="21">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who returned from the exile and all those who separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to seek Yahweh the God of Israel, ate.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="22">With joy they celebrated the festival of unleavened bread <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days, because Yahweh had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them in order to help them with the work of their hands on the house of the God of Israel. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">After these things <transChange type="added">during</transChange> the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest--</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh the God of Israel gave. The king granted him all his requests, for the hand of Yahweh was upon him. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">Some of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> some priests and Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">For on the first day of the first month he began the journey from Babylonia; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on him.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="10">For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">This is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the scroll of the words of the commands of Yahweh and his statutes for Israel:</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">"Artaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens. Peace. And now</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">I issue forth a decree that any of the people of Israel, their priests, or their Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem may go with you.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="14">For you are sent from the king and his seven counselors to enquire about Judah and Jerusalem concerning the law of your God, which is in your hand.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">Also, bring the silver and gold that the king and his advisors have freely offered to the God of Israel whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="16">and all of the silver and gold that you will find in the whole province of Babylonia, with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests giving willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">With this money, then, with diligence you must buy young bulls, young rams, lambs, and their offerings and libations. You must offer them on the altar that is in the house of your God in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="18">You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers to do with the remainder of the silver and gold according to the desire of your God.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="19">And the vessels that were given to you for the service of the house of your God you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="20">And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king's treasury." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="21">"I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence,</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="22">up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred measures of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and {unlimited salt}.<note>Literally, "salt that is not specified"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="23">All that is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaven, otherwise wrath will come on the kingdom of the king and his sons.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="24">You also should be aware that it is not permitted to place tax, tribute, or duty upon all of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, and other servants of the house of God. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="25">"You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all of the people <transChange type="added">in the province</transChange> Beyond the River who know the laws of your God. And you will teach those who do not know.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="26">All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="27">Blessed be Yahweh the God of our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> who put this in the heart of the king to glorify the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="28">and who extended to me loyal love before the king and his counselors, and before all of the mighty officials of the king. I took courage, for the hand of Yahweh my God was upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">These were the heads of their {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> and the register of those returnees from Babylonia who <transChange type="added">came up</transChange> with me in the reign of King Artaxerxes:</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="2">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Phinehas: Gershom. From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ithamar: Daniel. From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of David: Hattush.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shecaniah, from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Parosh: Zechariah and with him one hundred and fifty registered males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="4">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pahath-Moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of <transChange type="added">Zattu</transChange>:<note>Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Zattu has been restored from the LXX</note> Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Adin: Ebed son of Jehonathan, and with him fifty males.</verse>


book: Ezra
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<verse num="7">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="10">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of <transChange type="added">Bani</transChange>:<note>Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Bani has been restored from the LXX</note> Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Azgad: Jehohanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Adonikam, those who came last, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bigvai: Uthai son of Zabud,<note>Or "and Zabud"</note> and with him seventy males. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">I gathered them by the river that goes to Ahava and we camped there for three days. And I looked at the people and the priests, I found no one there from the sons of Levi.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="16">And I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were family heads, and for Jehoiarib and Elnathan who were wise.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">I sent them to Iddo, the head of the place called Casiphia, and I placed in their mouths what words to say to Iddo and his brothers the temple servants in Casiphia, to send to us ministers for the house of our God.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="18">With the good hand of our God before us, they brought us a man of understanding from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel--Sherebiah and his sons and brothers, eighteen <transChange type="added">in total</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="19">Also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah, the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty <transChange type="added">in total</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="20">And from the temple servants, whom David and <transChange type="added">his</transChange> officials had set up to serve the Levites, two hundred and twenty <transChange type="added">in total</transChange>. All of them were registered by name. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="21">I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="22">For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them."</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="24">I set apart twelve of the official priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="25">Then I weighed out to them silver and gold and the vessels, the offering of the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his commanders, and all of Israel who was present offered.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="26">I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred vessels of silver, one hundred talents of gold,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="27">twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two vessels of good polished bronze as precious as gold.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="28">And I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="29">Guard and look after <transChange type="added">them</transChange> until you weigh <transChange type="added">them</transChange> before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh."</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="30">So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="31">On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="33">On the fourth day, the silver, gold, and vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of priest Meremoth, the son of Uriah, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas. With them were the Levites, Jehozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="34">The amount and weight of all the weighed <transChange type="added">items</transChange> was recorded at that time. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="35">The exiles that returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel; twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve goats as a sin offering. All was a burnt offering to Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="36">They delivered the customs of the king to the king's satraps and to the governor of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River. And they supported the people of the house of God. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="2">For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and their sons. So the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the officials and prefects were foremost in this sin.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">When I heard this I tore my garment and my robe, and I pulled the hair out from my head and beard, and I sat appalled.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="4">Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">At the evening offering I got up from my mourning posture and, with my garment and robe torn, I fell down on my knees and I spread out my palms to Yahweh my God</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">From the days of our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> until this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our sins we ourselves, our kings, and our priests have been handed into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to utter shame, as it is this day.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place--for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">For we are slaves and in our bondage our God did not forsake us, and he has extended to us loyal love in the presence of the kings of Persia, to give to us deliverance<note>Or "preservation"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="10">"And now our God what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets saying, 'The land that you are entering to possess is a land of impurity with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their detestable things which they have filled from end to end with their uncleanness.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace and prosperity so that forever you may be strong and eat the good of the land and may give it as an inheritance to your sons.'</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt--you, our God, have held back less than our guilt <transChange type="added">deserved</transChange> and you have given us a remainder such as this.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">Shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who practice these detestable things? Would you not be angry with us until you destroy us with no remnant or remainder?</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="1">While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="2">Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="3">So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="5">Then Ezra stood up and made the chief priests, Levites, and all of Israel swear to do according to what was said. So they swore this oath. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="6">Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="7">And they sent a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to all the {returned exiles}<note>Literally "the sons of the exile"</note> to assemble in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="8">Anyone who did not come within three days, by decision of the officials and elders, all of his possessions would be devoted to God, and he himself would be excluded from the assembly of exiles. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="9">Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the public square of the house of God trembling because of this matter and from the rains.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="10">Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="11">Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women." </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="12">Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, "It is so. We must do according to your words.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="13">But the people are many, and it is the time of rain; we are unable to stand outside. The task is not for one day or two, for we greatly rebelled in this matter.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="14">Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us."</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="15">Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="16">The {returned exiles}<note>Literally "the sons of the exile"</note> did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="17">They finished <transChange type="added">investigating</transChange> all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="18">There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="19">{They pledged themselves}<note>Literally "they gave their hand"</note> to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="22">From the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Eleasah. </verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="23">From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="25">And from Israel, the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="26">From the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="27">From the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="29">From the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="30">From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="33">From the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="43">From the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.</verse>


book: Ezra
content:
<verse num="44">All of these had married foreign wives, and some from among the wives bore children. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">and one of my brothers, Hanani, came with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped the captivity and about Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">I said, "O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and awesome one who keeps the covenant and loyal love for the ones who love him and for those who keep his commands.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and confessing the sins of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.'</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">It happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. And I had never been sad before the king.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." And I was very much afraid.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors'<note>Or "fathers'"</note> burial site<note>Hebrew "sites"</note> is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?"</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">Then the king said to me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of the heavens.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Then I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has <transChange type="added">found</transChange> favor in your presence, <transChange type="added">I ask</transChange> that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors'<note>Or "fathers'"</note> burial sites, so that I may rebuild it." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, "How long will your journey be and when will you return?" So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">Then I said to the king, "If it is good for the king, let letters be given to me for the governors <transChange type="added">in the province</transChange> Beyond the River, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">Also, a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's land reserve, that he should give me timber for laying the beams for the gates of the citadel of the house and for the walls of the city, and for the house which I will enter." And the king gave <transChange type="added">permission</transChange> to me, according to the good hand of God on me. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">I came to the governors of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, and I gave them the letters of the king. Then the king sent troop commanders and horses with me.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, {they were greatly displeased}<note>Literally "it was a great disaster for them"</note> that a person had come to seek the welfare of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with me except the animal that I was riding on.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">I crossed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no place for {my mount}<note>Literally "the animal under me"</note> to cross over.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">The prefects did not know where I had gone and what I was doing. I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the prefects, and the rest of the workers. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">I told them of the good hand of my God that was upon me and surely the words of the king that were spoken to me. And they said, "Let us arise and build!" And they strengthened their hands for <transChange type="added">this</transChange> good work.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">Then I answered and said to them, "The God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Then Eliashib the high priest and his brothers the priests arose and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and erected its doors. They consecrated it up to the Tower of the Hundred and up to the Tower of Hananel.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">And {next to him}<note>Literally "at his hand"</note> the men of Jericho built, and {next to him}<note>Literally "at his hand"</note> Zaccur son of Imri built. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">{Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired. {Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Meshullam son of Berekiah, son of Meshezabel, repaired. {Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Zadok son of Baana repaired.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">{Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam repaired the old Yeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">{Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah who were under the rule of the governor of <transChange type="added">the province</transChange> Beyond the River, repaired.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">{Next to him}<note>Literally "At his hand"</note> Uzziel son of Harhaiah (goldsmiths) repaired. {Next to him}<note>Literally "At his hand"</note> Hananiah son of the perfume-makers repaired. They restored Jerusalem up to the Broad Wall.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">{Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Rephaiah son of Hur, commander of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">{Next to them}<note>Literally "At their hand"</note> Jedaiah son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. {Next to him}<note>Literally "At his hand"</note> Hattush son of Hashabneiah repaired. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">{Next to him}<note>Literally "At his hand"</note> Shallum son of Hallohesh, commander of half of the district of Jerusalem, repaired with his daughters. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall up to the Dung Gate. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">Malkijah son of Recab, commander of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, the commander of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and erected its doors, its bolts, its bars, and <transChange type="added">he built</transChange> the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, right up to the steps going down from the city of David.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, commander of half of the district of Beth Zur, repaired up to <transChange type="added">a point</transChange> opposite the burial sites of David, and up to the artificial pool and to the house of the mighty warriors. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">After him the Levites repaired; Rehum son of Bani, and next to him Hashabiah, commander of half of the district of Keilah, repaired his district.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai son of Henadad, commander of half of the district of Keilah,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">{next to him}<note>Literally "at his hand"</note> Ezer son of Jeshua, commander of Mizpah, repaired a second section of a wall opposite of the ascent of the armory at the angle.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">After him Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired a second section of a wall from the angle up to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">After him Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired a second section of a wall from the doorway of the house of Eliashib up to the end of the house of Eliashib. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="24">After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired a second section of a wall from the house of Azariah up to the angle up to the corner.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="25">Palal son of Uzai <transChange type="added">repaired</transChange> opposite the Angle at the tower that juts out from the upper house of the king, at the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="26">and the temple servants who were living on Ophel <transChange type="added">repaired</transChange> up to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="27">After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29">After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired <transChange type="added">the wall</transChange> opposite his room.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">After him Malkijah, {one of the goldsmiths},<note>Literally "the son of the goldsmith"</note> repaired up to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Enrollment Gate and up to the upper room of the corner.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="32">Between the upper room of the corner to the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and merchants repaired. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Nehemiah 4:1-23 in the English Bible is 3:33-4:17 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, <transChange type="added">he</transChange> became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore <transChange type="added">these things</transChange> for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?" </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and said, "Their wall of stone that they are building would break down if a fox went on it!" </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have {provoked the builders to anger}.<note>Literally "provoked anger before the builders"</note> </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half <transChange type="added">its height</transChange>. For the people had a heart to do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">But Judah said, "The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">Then our enemies said, "They will not know nor see until we come upon them and will kill them and stop the work."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">When the Jews who lived beside them came, they said to us ten times, "From all of the places where they live, <transChange type="added">they will come up</transChange> against us."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">I stationed the people behind the deepest part of the wall in the open places according to their families, with their swords, spears, and bows.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and we all returned to the wall--each to his work.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">From that day, half of my servants were working on craftsmanship, half were holding spears, small shields, bows, and breastplates. The commanders were behind the whole house of Judah.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">The ones who were building the wall and the ones {who carried the materials}<note>Literally "who carried the burden"</note> were carrying in one hand while doing the task, and with the other hand were grasping a weapon.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">I said to the nobles, to the prefects, and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widespread, and we are spread out over the wall far from each other.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, come together to us there. Our God will fight for us." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">At the time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one <transChange type="added">kept</transChange> his weapon <transChange type="added">even</transChange> in the water. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives <transChange type="added">against</transChange> their Jewish brothers.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">There were those who were saying, "Our sons and daughters, we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and live."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">And there were those who were saying, "We have borrowed money on our fields and our vineyards for the tax of the king.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. {We are powerless},<note>Literally "There is no power in our hand"</note> and our fields and vineyards <transChange type="added">belong</transChange> to others." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">and I said to them: "We ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word <transChange type="added">to say</transChange>. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God <transChange type="added">to prevent</transChange> the disgrace from the nations, our enemies?</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop <transChange type="added">taking</transChange> this interest.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">So they said, "We will restore it and will not request <transChange type="added">anything more</transChange>. So we will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes--twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food <transChange type="added">allowance</transChange> of the governor.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at my table.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">Now what was prepared each day for me was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds. And every ten days all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> wine were made. But for this I did not demand the food <transChange type="added">allowance</transChange> of the governor because the slavery was too heavy on this people.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it--though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates--</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in <transChange type="added">one of</transChange> the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I am not able to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you all?"</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">And they sent a message to me four times like this, and I returned an answer like this to them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">And Sanballat sent his servant with an open letter, <transChange type="added">another</transChange> word like this to me a fifth time, in his hand.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">In it was written, "It has been reported among the nations, and Gashmu also is saying it, that you and the Jews are considering rebellion. Therefore, truly you are building the wall and you are becoming their king, according to these words.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, '<transChange type="added">There is</transChange> a king in Judah.' And now it will be proclaimed to the king according to these words. Now, come and we will plan together."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">So I sent to him saying, "None of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying <transChange type="added">things</transChange> created in your own mind"--</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">for all of them <transChange type="added">sought</transChange> to frighten us, saying, "their hands will not do the work." And now, <transChange type="added">God</transChange>, strengthen my hands. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">Now I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined <transChange type="added">at home</transChange>, and he said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you--during the night they are coming to kill you."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">But I said, "Should a man like me run away? And would a man like me go into the temple so that he can save his life? I will not go in!"</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">Then I look and realized God had not sent him; rather, he had spoken the prophecy against me <transChange type="added">because</transChange> Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">For this reason he was hired: to frighten <transChange type="added">me</transChange> so that I would act and sin, so that they would have a bad report so they could taunt me.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to their works, and also Noadiah the prophetess, and the remainder of the prophets who were frightening me. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">When our enemies heard of this, all of the nations surrounding us were afraid and {lost their confidence}.<note>Literally "fell much in their eyes"</note> They knew that this work had been done with <transChange type="added">the help of</transChange> our God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">Also, in those days the nobles of Judah increasingly sent their letters to Tobiah, and <transChange type="added">letters</transChange> from Tobiah returned to them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan took as a wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">They also were speaking of his good deeds in my presence, and they were sending my words out to him. Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Now when the wall had been built and I had erected the doors and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and the Levites,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">The city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> widespread and large, but the people in it were few and no houses were rebuilt. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found <transChange type="added">this</transChange> written upon it: </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">These are the people of the province who came up from captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">These came with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pahath-Moab, of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ater, <transChange type="added">namely</transChange> of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29">The men of Kiriath-Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="34">The people<note>Or "sons"</note> of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="37">The people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="38">The people<note>Or "sons"</note> of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="39">The priests: The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="41">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="42">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Harim, one thousand and seventeen. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="43">The Levites: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jeshua, <transChange type="added">namely</transChange> of Kadmiel of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hodaviah, seventy-four.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="44">The singers: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="45">The gatekeepers: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shallum, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ater, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Talmon, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Akkub, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hatita, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="46">The temple servants: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Ziha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hasupha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Tabbaoth,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="47">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Keros, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Siaha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Padon,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="48">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Lebanah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hagaba, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shalmai,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="49">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hanan, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Giddel, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gahar,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="50">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reaiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Rezin, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nekoda,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="51">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Gazzam, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Uzza, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Paseah,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="52">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Besai, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Meunim, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nephushesim,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="53">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bakbuk, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hakupha, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Harhur,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="54">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Bazlith, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Mehida, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Harsha,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="55">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Barkos, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Sisera, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Temah,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="56">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Neziah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hatipha. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="57">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Solomon's servants: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Sotai, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Sophereth, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Perida,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="58">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Jaala, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Darkon, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Giddel,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="59">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Shephatiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hattil, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Amon. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="60">All the temple servants and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="61">These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they were from Israel:</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="62">the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Delaiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Tobiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="63">And from the priests: the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hobaiah, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Hakkoz, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Barzillai (who had taken as a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="64">These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="65">So the governor said to them that they could not eat the most holy food until a priest could come with Urim and Thummim. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="66">All of the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="67">besides their servants and female slaves--these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And the male and female singers were two hundred and forty-five,<note>After this verse, some versions add verse 68: "Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five"; compare Ezra 2:66</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="69"><note>Nehemiah 7:69-73 in the English Bible is 7:68-72 in the Hebrew Bible</note> <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="70">Now some from the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="71">Now some of the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="72">And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="73">So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their cities. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">All of the people gathered as one to the public square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of Moses that Yahweh had commanded Israel.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">So Ezra the priest brought the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> before the assembly for <transChange type="added">each</transChange> man and woman to hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people <transChange type="added">were attentive</transChange> to the book of the law.<note>Hebrew torah</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">Then Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden podium that had been made for the occasion. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right. On his left <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, because he was above all of the people. When he opened it all the people stood up.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, "Amen! Amen!" while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh <transChange type="added">with their</transChange> noses to the ground.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> while the people were in their places.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">So they read the book from the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that they could understand the reading. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of the people, "This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Do not mourn nor weep." For all of the people wept when they heard the words of the law.<note>Hebrew torah</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">All of the people went to eat, to drink, to send a share, and to have great joy because they understood the words that they had made known to them. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">On the second day the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered together to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law.<note>Hebrew torah</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">They found written in the law,<note>Hebrew torah</note> which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written."</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the public square of the Water Gate, and in the public square of the Gate of Ephraim.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">And all of the assembly of those who returned from captivity made booths and lived in the booths because the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had not done it from the days of Jeshua son of Nun until that day. And there was very great joy.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">And he read from the scroll of the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of God day by day from the first day up to the last day. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly according to the rule. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">On the twenty-fourth day of this month the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani stood on the platform of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "Stand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise! </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">"You alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite--to give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">"You saw the misery of our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">You made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments, regulations, and law<note>Hebrew torah</note> by the hand of your servant Moses.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">You gave them bread from heaven for their starvation, and you caused water to go out from a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in order to take into possession the land that you have sworn by your hand to give to them. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">"But they and our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion {determined}<note>Literally "they gave head to"</note> to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger},<note>Literally "long of nose"</note> abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">Even when they made for themselves a molten idol of a calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you out from Egypt,' and committed great blasphemies.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night <transChange type="added">that</transChange> gave light to them on the way that they went.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">Forty years you sustained them in the desert--they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">And you gave them kingdoms and nations and allotted them a portion. They took into possession the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">You made their children<note>Or "sons"</note> numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to enter in order to take possession.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="24">So the children<note>Or "sons"</note> went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites; you gave them into their hand, and their kings and the nations of the land to do with them according to their pleasure.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="25">And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land and took possession of houses filled with every good thing: hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, and many <transChange type="added">fruit</transChange> trees. They ate and became full, and they became fat and took delight in your great goodness. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="26">"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law<note>Hebrew torah</note> behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="27">Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="28">But when they had rest they returned to doing evil before you, and you abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, and they ruled over them. Then they returned and cried out to you, and from the heavens you heard and many times rescued them according to your compassions.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29">You warned them so that they would return to your law.<note>Hebrew torah</note> Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to your commandments but sinned against your judgments that a person must do so that they may live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not listen.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="32">"And now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps <transChange type="added">his</transChange> covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="33">You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="34">Our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did not keep your law<note>Hebrew torah</note> and did not listen to your commandments and statutes that you declared to them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="35">And in their kingdom and in the greatness you gave to them, and in the wide and fertile land that you gave before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their evil deeds.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="36">Behold, we are slaves to this day, and the land that you have given to our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to eat its fruits and <transChange type="added">enjoy</transChange> its goodness--behold, we are slaves in it!</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="37">Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="38"><note>Nehemiah 9:38-10:39 in the English Bible is 10:1-40 in the Hebrew Bible</note> "Now because of all of this we make a binding written agreement and are writing on the sealed documents <transChange type="added">the names of</transChange> our commanders, our Levites, and our priests." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Upon the sealed documents: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah and Zedekiah;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="28">"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to <transChange type="added">observe</transChange> the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of God--their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who know and understand--</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">are</transChange> helping their brothers, their nobles, and entering into a solemn oath to walk in the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all of the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and his judgments and regulations.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land nor take their daughters for our sons.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">And the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not accept it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego <transChange type="added">the crops of</transChange> the seventh year and <transChange type="added">cancel</transChange> every debt. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="32">"We put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="33">for the rows of bread, the offering of the daily sacrifice, the continual <transChange type="added">burnt</transChange> sacrifice, the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, the appointed <transChange type="added">festival</transChange> times, the holy objects, the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="34">And we have cast lots for the contributions of the wood offering of the priests, the Levites, and the people to bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the house of our God, by our fathers' houses, at designated times, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God--as it is written in the law.<note>Hebrew torah</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="35">We <transChange type="added">also</transChange> bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="36">And the firstborn of our sons and beasts--as it is written in the law<note>Hebrew torah</note>--and the firstborn of our cattle and sheep, to bring to the house of our God <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to the priests serving in the house of our God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="37">And we bring the best of our dough, our offerings, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and olive oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and <transChange type="added">to bring</transChange> the tithe of our soil to the Levites, for the Levites <transChange type="added">receive</transChange> the tithes in all of our rural towns.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="38">And the priest, the descendant<note>Or "son"</note> of Aaron, will be with the Levites during the tithe the Levites receive. The Levites will bring up a tithe of the tithes for the house of our God to the chambers of the storehouse.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="39">For the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the {Levites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Levi"</note> will bring to the storerooms the offering of grain, new wine, and olive oil. These are the objects of the sanctuary and the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God." </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> nine's place <transChange type="added">was in</transChange> the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> cities.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">These are the heads of the province who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each one lived on his property in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Solomon's servants.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">some</transChange> from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. From the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Perez;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">and Maaseiah son of Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Jehoiarib, son of Zechariah, son<note>Or "descendant"</note> of the Shilonite.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">All of the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Perez who were living in Jerusalem <transChange type="added">were</transChange> four hundred and sixty-eight able-bodied men. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">These are the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">following</transChange> after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">And Joel son of Zicri, their chief officer; and Judah son of Hassenuah, second <transChange type="added">in command</transChange> over the city. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub--the leader of the house of God--</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two. And Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">and his brothers, heads of the {families},<note>Literally "fathers"</note> two hundred and forty-two. And Amashai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">and their brothers; mighty warriors of strength, one hundred and twenty-eight. The chief officer over them <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zabdiel son of Hagedolim. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">Now from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">and Shabbethai and Jehozabad, leaders over the work of the Levites outside of the house of God;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son<note>Or "descendant"</note> of Asaph, <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> the leader to begin the thanksgiving prayer, and Bakbukiah the second of his brothers; Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">All of the Levites in the holy city <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred and eighty-four. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, the keepers of the gates, one hundred and seventy-two.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">And the remainder of Israel, the priests and the Levites, in all of the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">But the temple servants were living on the Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the temple servants. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Asaph, the singers over the work of the house of God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">For <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a command of the king concerning them and a regulation concerning the singers, required {day by day}.<note>Literally "a word for a day on his day"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="24">And Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Zerah the son of Judah, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the hand of the king in all matters concerning the people. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="25">As for the villages in their territories, <transChange type="added">some</transChange> from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah lived in Kiriath-Arba and {its settlements},<note>Literally "its daughters"</note> Dibon and {its settlements},<note>Literally "its daughters"</note> Jekabzeel and {its settlements},<note>Literally "its daughters"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="27">Hazar Shual, Beersheba and {its settlements},<note>Literally "its daughters"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="28">Ziklad, Meconah and {its settlements},<note>Literally "its daughters"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">Zanoah, Adullam and {their settlements},<note>Literally "their daughters"</note> Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and {its settlements}.<note>Literally "its daughters"</note> So they camped from Beersheba up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Valley <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Hinnom.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin from Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and {their settlements},<note>Literally "their daughters"</note></verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="36">And from the Levites the working groups of Judah <transChange type="added">were assigned</transChange> to Benjamin. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the heads of the priests and their brothers in the days of Jeshua. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah and his brothers <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">And Bakbukiah, Unno, their brothers <transChange type="added">stood</transChange> opposite them during service.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">Jeshua fathered Jehoiakim; Jehoiakim fathered Eliashib; Eliashib <transChange type="added">fathered</transChange> Jehoiada;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">Now in the days of Jehoiakim the priests and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; <transChange type="added">and</transChange> of Jedaiah, Nethanel. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">In the days of Eliashib, Jehoiada, Jehohanan, and Jaddua the Levites were recorded as heads of the {families}.<note>Literally "fathers"</note> So <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> the priests <transChange type="added">during</transChange> the reign of Darius the Persian.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Levi and the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> were recorded in the scroll of the Annals until the days of Jehohanan son of Eliashib.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="24">And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks by the command of David the man of God, section alongside section.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="25">Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storerooms of the gates.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="26">These were in the days of Jehoiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="27">At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites from all of their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to do the dedication with joy, thanksgivings, song and cymbals, stringed instruments and lyres.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="28">The {singers}<note>Literally "sons of the singers"</note> were gathered from the circuit all around Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathite,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29">from Beth Gilgal, from the field of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers built for themselves villages all around Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people, the gates, and the wall. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">Then I brought the commanders of Judah up on to the wall. I appointed two great choirs; <transChange type="added">one went in</transChange> a procession to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="35">and the {priests}<note>Literally "sons of the priests"</note> with trumpets; Zechariah son of Jehonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="36">and his brothers Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani with the instruments of the songs of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe <transChange type="added">went</transChange> before them.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="37">At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="38">Then the second choir went the opposite <transChange type="added">way</transChange>. I <transChange type="added">followed</transChange> after them with half of the people on the wall, from over the Tower of the Ovens up to the Wide Wall</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="39">and over the Gate of Ephraim, at the Old Gate, at the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the Sheep Gate. And they <transChange type="added">stopped and</transChange> stood at the Gate of the Guard.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="40">So the two choirs stood in the house of God, and I and half of the prefects with me;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="41">and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah with the trumpets;</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="42">Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jizrahiah the chief officer.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="43">They offered on that day great sacrifices and rejoiced because God brought great joy to them. And the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="44">On that day men were appointed for the storehouse rooms, the offerings, the first fruits, and the tithes, in order to gather in them from the fields of the cities the requirements of the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> for the priests and Levites; for the joy of Judah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> upon the priests and Levites standing there.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="45">They kept the responsibility of their God and the responsibility of cleansing, and the singers and gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="46">For in the days of David and Asaph from ancient times there was the head of the singers and a song of praise and thanksgiving to God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="47">So all of Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily food portions of the singers and gatekeepers. And they set apart <transChange type="added">that which was for</transChange> the Levites, and the Levites set apart <transChange type="added">that which was for</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Aaron. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="1">On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="2">because they did not come to meet the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them--but our God changed the curse into a blessing.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="3">So it happened when they heard the law<note>Hebrew torah</note> that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="4">Before this, Eliashib the priest who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God--the one related to Tobiah--</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="5">prepared for <transChange type="added">Tobiah</transChange> a large chamber where they had formerly put the grain offering, the frankincense, the <transChange type="added">temple</transChange> objects, tithes of grain, wine, and oil commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="6">During all of this, I was not in Jerusalem because in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. At the end of <transChange type="added">some</transChange> days I asked permission from the king <transChange type="added">to leave</transChange>.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="7">So I came to Jerusalem. And I came to learn of the wrong that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by making him a room in the courtyard of the house of God.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="8">It was very displeasing for me, and I threw all of the objects from the house of Tobiah outside of the chamber.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="9">And I spoke <transChange type="added">in order</transChange>, and they cleansed the chambers. Then I returned the objects of the house of God--the grain offering and the frankincense. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="10">And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="11">So I quarreled with the prefects, and I said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them and set them at their station.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="12">So all of Judah brought the tithe of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storehouses.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="13">I appointed as treasurer over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah from the Levites, and as their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful. <transChange type="added">The responsibility given</transChange> to them was to distribute to their brothers.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="14">Remember me, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loyal acts which I have done in the house of my God and in his service. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="15">In those days I saw in Judah <transChange type="added">people</transChange> treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps <transChange type="added">of grain</transChange> and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing <transChange type="added">it all</transChange> to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="16">Tyrian men who lived in <transChange type="added">Jerusalem</transChange> brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the Sabbath to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Judah and in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="17">So I quarreled with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath?</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="18">Did not your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city <transChange type="added">too</transChange>? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!" </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="19">So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut and said that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I appointed some of my young men over the gates <transChange type="added">to prevent</transChange> any {goods}<note>Literally "burden"</note> being brought in on the day of the Sabbath.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="20">So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="21">But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do <transChange type="added">it again</transChange>, I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="22">And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="23">Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="24">Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but <transChange type="added">only</transChange> the tongues of other nations.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="25">So I quarreled with them and cursed them and beat some of their men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath by God: "Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="26">Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in this way? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet the foreign women made even him sin.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="27">Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?" </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="28">One from the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonote <transChange type="added">was there</transChange>. I chased him away from me.</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="29">Remember them, my God, because of their defilements of the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. </verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="30">So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work,</verse>


book: Neh
content:
<verse num="31">a contribution of the wood offering at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="1">And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush<note>That is, "Ethiopia"</note>--<transChange type="added">over</transChange> one hundred and twenty-seven provinces.<note>Hebrew "province"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="2">In those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting on the throne of his kingdom, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the citadel of Susa,</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="3">he gave a banquet in the third year of his reign for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and officials of the provinces were in his presence</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="4">as he displayed the wealth of the glory of his kingdom and the glorious splendor of his greatness <transChange type="added">for</transChange> many days, one hundred and eighty days<note>Hebrew "day"</note>. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="5">And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king's palace garden that lasted seven days.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="6">There were curtains of finely woven linen and blue cloth tied with cords of fine white linen and purple cloth to silver curtain rings and pillars of alabaster, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> couches of gold and silver on a paved floor of alabaster, precious stone, mother-of-pearl, and costly stones.<note>Hebrew "stone"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="7">Drinks were served in goblets of gold and {goblets of different kinds},<note>Literally "goblets from changing goblets"</note> and <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> {plentiful royal wine according to the bounty of the king}.<note>Literally "much wine of the kingdom according to the hand of the king"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="8">There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed every official of his palace to do as each one pleased.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="9">Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women <transChange type="added">in</transChange> {the palace}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of the reign" or "<transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of the kingdom"</note> that belonged to King Ahasuerus. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="10">On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus,</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="11">to bring Queen Vashti before the king {with her royal crown}<note>Literally "with <transChange type="added">her</transChange> headdress of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdom"</note> to show the people and the officials her beauty, {for she was very attractive}.<note>Literally "for she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> of good appearance"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="12">But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {conveyed by}<note>Literally "by the hand of"</note> the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his anger burned in him. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="13">And the king said to the wise men, {the ones who know the times}<note>Literally "the knowers of the times"</note>--for it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the procedure of the king before all those who knew law and rights;<note>Or "custom and legalities"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="14">and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who {had access to the king}<note>Literally "saw the face of the king"</note> and sat first in the kingdom--</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="15">"According to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus {conveyed by}<note>Literally "by the hand of"</note> the eunuchs?</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="16">And Memucan said before the king and the officials, "Not only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the king, but to all the officials and all of the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="17">For this deed of the queen {will be known}<note>Literally "will go out"</note> to all the women, causing them {to look with contempt on their husbands},<note>Literally "to despise their husbands in their eyes"</note> as they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him but she did not come!'</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="18">This day the women of nobility from Persia and Media will respond to all the officials of the king and there will be no end to contempt and anger.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="19">{If it pleases}<note>Literally "If it is good to"</note> the king, let {a royal edict}<note>Literally "a word of the kingdom"</note> go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than she.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="20">And let the king's decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small."<note>Or "high and low"</note> </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="21">{This advice pleased the king}<note>Literally "The word was good in the eyes of the king</note> and the officials, and the king acted according to the word of Memucan.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="22">And he sent letters to all the provinces of the king, to each province according to its own script, and to every people in their own {language},<note>Literally "tongue"</note> that every man should be the master of his house and who speaks in the {language}<note>Literally "tongue"</note> of his people. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="1">After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="2">And the king's servants attending him said, "Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="3">Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the {harem}<note>Literally "house of the women"</note> in the citadel of Susa {under the care of}<note>Literally "to the hand of"</note> Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give <transChange type="added">them</transChange> their beauty treatment.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="4">And let the young woman {who is pleasing}<note>Literally "who is good"</note> in the king's eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king's eyes, and he acted accordingly. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="5">There was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="6">who was deported<note>Or "exiled"</note> from Jerusalem with the exiles<note>Hebrew "exile"</note> who were deported<note>Or "exiled"</note> with Jeconiah<note>A variant spelling of "Jehoiachin"</note> the king of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported.<note>Or "exiled"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="7">He<note>That is, Mordecai</note> was raising Hadassah, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Esther, his uncle's daughter,<note>That is, his cousin</note> for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman <transChange type="added">had</transChange> a beautiful figure and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="8">And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa {under Hegai's care},<note>Literally "to the hand of Hegai"</note> Esther was taken to the {king's palace}<note>Literally "house of the king"</note> {under the care of}<note>Literally "to the hand of"</note> Hegai who was in charge of the women.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="9">{The young woman pleased him}<note>Literally "the young woman was good in his eyes"</note> and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the {king's palace},<note>Literally "house of the king"</note> and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the {harem}.<note>Literally "house of the women"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="10">Esther did not disclose her people and her family because Modecai had charged her that she must not tell.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="11">And every day Modecai would walk up and down in front of the courtyard of the {harem}<note>Literally "house of the women"</note> to learn {how Esther was doing}.<note>Literally "the peace of Esther and how it does/does with her"</note> </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="12">When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="13">in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her {to take}<note>Literally "to go"</note> with her from the {harem}<note>Literally "house of the women"</note> to the {king's palace}.<note>Literally "house of the king"</note></verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="14">In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the {second harem}<note>Literally "second house of the women"</note> {under the care of}<note>Literally "to the hand of"</note> Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="15">When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken <transChange type="added">her</transChange> as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="16">Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his {palace},<note>Literally "house of the reign" or "house of the kingdom"</note> in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="17">And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a {royal crown}<note>Literally "crown of the kingdom"</note> on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="18">And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his officials and servants. And he granted a tax amnesty<note>See HALOT 252-253 s.v.</note> to the provinces and he gave gifts with royal liberality. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="19">When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting at the gate of the king.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="20">Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther {did what Mordecai told her},<note>Literally "did the word of Mordecai"</note> just as when she was brought up by him.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="21">In those days Mordecai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired {to assassinate}<note>Literally "to send a hand against"</note> King Ahasuerus.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="22">And the matter became known to Mordecai and he told <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Queen Esther, and Esther told <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the king in the name of Mordecai.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="23">And the matter was investigated and found <transChange type="added">to be so</transChange>; and the two of them were hanged on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="1">After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set {his position}<note>Literally "his throne"</note> above all the officials who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="2">And all of the king's servants who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the gate of the king <transChange type="added">were</transChange> kneeling and bowing down to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him, but Mordecai did not kneel and bow down.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="3">And the king's servants who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the gate of the king said to Mordecai, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you transgressing the command of the king?"</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="4">They spoke to him day after day, but he did not listen to them, and they informed Haman to see if {Mordecai's resolve would prevail};<note>Literally "the word's of Mordecai would stand"</note> for he had told them that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a Jew.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="5">And Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling and bowing down to him, and he was filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> anger.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="6">But {he considered it beneath him}<note>Literally "he despised it in his eyes"</note> to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the kingdom of Ahasuerus. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="7">In the first month, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasurus, he cast pur--that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, the lot--before the presence of Haman {for the day and for the month},<note>Literally "from day to day and from month to month"</note> until<note>The Septuagint adds, "and the lot fell on the thirteenth day of"</note> the twelfth month, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, the month of Adar.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="8">And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom; their laws <transChange type="added">are</transChange> different from every <transChange type="added">other</transChange> people, and they do not {observe}<note>Literally "do"</note> the laws of the king; it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="9">If it pleases the king, let a <transChange type="added">decree</transChange> be issued to destroy them, and I will pay<note>Or "I will weigh"</note> ten thousand talents<note>Hebrew "talent"</note> of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="10">So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="11">And the king said to Haman, "The money <transChange type="added">is</transChange> given to you and to the people to do with it {as you see fit}.<note>Literally "as the good <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your eyes"</note> </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="12">And the king's secretaries were called in the first month on the thirteenth day, and <transChange type="added">a decree</transChange> was issued, according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over all the provinces, and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> officials of all the people, to each province according to <transChange type="added">its own</transChange> script and to all people according to their own language; <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> written in the name of King Ahasuerus and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sealed with the king's ring.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="13">Letters <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sent by couriers<note>Or "by runners"</note> to all the provinces of the king to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, {both young and old},<note>Literally "from young to old"</note> women and children, on one day, the thirteenth day of the month, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Adar, and to plunder their goods.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="14">A copy of the edict <transChange type="added">was</transChange> presented <transChange type="added">as</transChange> law in every province making <transChange type="added">it</transChange> known to all the people to be ready for that day.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="15">The couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered.<note>Or "disturbed"</note> </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="1">Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry;</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="2">he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="3">In every province <transChange type="added">each</transChange> place where the king's edict and his law came, there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="4">And Esther's maids and her eunuchs came and they told her, and the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he might remove his sackcloth--but he did not accept <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="5">Then Esther called Hathach from the king's eunuchs {who regularly attended to her},<note>Literally "who stood before her presence"</note> and she ordered him <transChange type="added">to go</transChange> to Mordecai to learn what was happening and why.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="6">So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the public square of the city, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in front of the gate of the king,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="7">and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="8">And he gave him a copy of the edict of the law that had been issued in Susa for their destruction to show Esther, and to inform her, and to charge her to go to the king and make supplication to him and entreat before him for her people. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="9">And Hathach went <transChange type="added">back</transChange> and told Esther the words of Mordecai.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="10">And Esther spoke to Hathach and {she gave him a message for Mordecai}:<note>Literally "she charged him to Mordecai"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="11">"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that <transChange type="added">if</transChange> any man or woman who goes to the king to the inner courtyard, who is not called, he has one law, to be killed, except if the king extends to him the gold scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king {for thirty days}."<note>Literally "these thirty days"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="13">Then Mordecai told <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the palace of the king more than all the Jews.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="14">For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? <transChange type="added">Perhaps</transChange> you have come to a royal position for a time such as this."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="16">"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="1">And it happened, on the third day, and Esther put on royal clothes, and she stood in the inner courtyard of the {king's palace},<note>Literally "house of the king"</note> opposite the {king's palace};<note>Literally "house of the king"</note> the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting on his royal throne in the {throne room}<note>Literally "house of the reign" or "house of the kingdom"</note> opposite the doorway of the palace.</verse>


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<verse num="2">When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="3">And the king said to her, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it, Queen Esther? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your request? It will be given to you--even half the kingdom."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="4">And Esther said, "If it is good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="5">And the king said, "Bring Haman quickly {to fulfill}<note>Literally "to do"</note> the request of Esther." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="6">And the king said to Esther {while they were drinking wine},<note>Literally "at the meal of wine"</note> "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your petition? It will be given to you. What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your request? Even half the kingdom, it will done.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="7">And Esther answered and said, "<transChange type="added">This is</transChange> my petition and my request.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="8">If I have found favor in the eyes of the king,<note>Or "I have won the favor of the king</note> and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them tomorrow, and I will do according to the word of the king. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="9">And Haman went out on that day rejoicing and {feeling good}.<note>Literally "good of heart"</note> But when Haman saw Mordecai at the gate of the king, and he did not rise or tremble before him, Haman was filled {with rage toward}<note>Literally "rage to"</note> Mordecai.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="10">But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent <transChange type="added">for</transChange> and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="11">And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth and the number of his sons and all <transChange type="added">the ways</transChange> that the king had honored him and promoted him above the officials and king's servants.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="12">{And Haman added},<note>Literally "And Haman said also"</note> "Esther the Queen did not let <transChange type="added">just anyone</transChange> come to the banquet that she prepared with the king except me, and I am also invited tomorrow to her <transChange type="added">banquet</transChange> with the king.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="13">But all this {fails to satisfy me}<note>Literally "it is not sufficient for me"</note> {when}<note>Literally "at every time"</note> I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="14">And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubits<note>Hebrew "cubit"</note> high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="1">During that night the king's sleep escaped <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, and he gave orders to bring the {scroll of records and chronicles},<note>Literally "the scroll of remembrance and the events of the days"</note> and they were read before the king.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="2">And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired {to assassinate}<note>Literally "to send a hand against"</note> King Ahasuerus.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="3">And the king asked, "What has been done to bestow honor to Mordecai for this?" And the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="4">And the king asked, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the courtyard?" Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king's outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="5">And the king's servants said to him, "Look! Haman <transChange type="added">is</transChange> standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Let him come."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="6">And Haman came, and the king said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" And Haman thought to himself, "Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?"</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="8">let them bring {royal clothing}<note>Literally "clothing of the kingdom"</note> with which the king has clothed himself, and a horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal head-dress has been given.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="9">And let the clothing and the horse be given {to the man}<note>Literally "to the hand of the man"</note> by the officials of the king's nobles; let them cloth the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him ride on his horse through the public square of the city, and let them proclaim before him, 'Thus, it will be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.'"</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="10">Then the king said to Haman, "Quickly, take the clothing and the horse, just as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the gate of the king; you must not leave out anything from what you have said."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="11">So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and let him ride through the public square of the city; and he proclaimed before him, "Thus, it is done to the man whom the king wishes to honor." </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="12">Then Mordecai returned to the gate of the king, and Haman rushed to his house mournful and with his head covered.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends all that had happened to him. And his advisers and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {from the descendants of the Jews},<note>Literally "from seed of the Jews"</note> you will not prevail against him, but will certainly fall before him."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="14">As they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still speaking with him the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="1">So the king and Haman went {to dine}<note>Literally "to drink"</note> with Queen Esther.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And the king again said to Esther, on the second day {while they were drinking},<note>Literally "at the meal of wine"</note> "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your request? It will be given <transChange type="added">to you</transChange>--even half the kingdom."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="3">Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, "If I have found favor in your eyes,<note>Or "If I have won your favor"</note> O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request;</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="4">I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this<note>Hebrew "there"</note> is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."<note>See HALOT 1437, s.v. NRSV translates, "but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="5">And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he, and where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he, who {gave himself the right to do this}?"<note>Literally "has filled his heart to do so"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="6">And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this evil Haman!" And Haman was terrified before the king and queen. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="7">The king rose in his anger {from the banquet}<note>Literally "from the banquet of wine"</note> <transChange type="added">and went</transChange> to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for {he realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life}.<note>Literally "that evil had been determined for him from the king"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="8">And the king returned from the palace garden to the {banquet hall},<note>Literally "house of the meal of wine"</note> <transChange type="added">where</transChange> Haman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying prostrate on the couch that Esther <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the words<note>Hebrew "word"</note> went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="9">And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, "Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good <transChange type="added">for the sake</transChange> of the king stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it."</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="10">And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="1">On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> to her.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="2">And the king removed his signet ring that he had taken away from Haman, and he gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="3">And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite's evil <transChange type="added">plan</transChange> and the plot that he devised against the Jews.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="4">And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="5">and she said, "If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him,<note>Or "if I have won his favor"</note> and if the king is pleased with this matter, and {I have his approval},<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> good in his eyes"</note> let <transChange type="added">an edict</transChange> be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in all the provinces of the king.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="6">For {how can I bear}<note>Literally "how am I able"</note> to look on the disaster that will find my people, and {how can I bear}<note>Literally "how am I able"</note> to look on the destruction of my family?"</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="7">And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have given Haman's house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he {plotted against}<note>Literally "sent his hand against"</note> the Jews.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="8">Write {as you see fit}<note>Literally "as it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in your eyes"</note> concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked." </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="9">And the secretaries of the king were summoned<note>Or "called"</note> at that time, in the third month, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third <transChange type="added">day</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">an edict</transChange> was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cush<note>That is, "Ethiopia"</note>--one hundred and twenty-seven provinces<note>Hebrew "province"</note>--each province according to its own script and to every people in their own {language},<note>Literally "tongue"</note> and to the Jews in their own script and language.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="10">And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed <transChange type="added">the letters</transChange> with the king's signet ring and sent them<note>Hebrew "the letters"</note> by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses {bred by}<note>Literally "sons of"</note> racing mares.<note>See HALOT 1244 s.v.</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">In them</transChange> the king allowed the Jews who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in every city to assemble and {defend their lives},<note>Literally "to stand for their live<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="12">in one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="13">A copy of the {edict}<note>Literally "writing"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> to be given <transChange type="added">as</transChange> law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be ready<note>See HALOT 902 s.v.</note> on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="14">The mounted couriers on the royal horses went out without delay, urged by the king's word. The law was given in the citadel of Susa. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="15">Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in {royal clothing}<note>Literally "clothing of the kingdom"</note> of blue cloth and white linen, and a great crown of gold and a robe of fine white linen and purple, and the city of Susa was shouting and rejoicing.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="17">In every province and city, wherever the king's edict and his law came, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a {holiday},<note>Literally "day of good"</note> and many of the people from the country <transChange type="added">were</transChange> posing as Jews because the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="1">In the twelfth month, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on which the edict of the king arrived and his law was enacted, on the day in which the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them but was overturned, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the Jews gained power against their enemies,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="2">the Jews gathered in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus {to strike against}<note>Literally "to send a hand against"</note> those who sought their destruction, and no one could withstand them,<note>Or "stand in their presence"</note> as the fear of them fell on all the people.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="3">All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, governors, and {those who did the work of the king}<note>Literally "the doers of the work who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for the king"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> supporting the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="4">For Mordecai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> high-ranking in the {king's palace}<note>Literally "house of the king"</note> and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as {Mordecai grew more and more powerful}.<note>Literally "the man Mordecai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going and becoming great"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="5">The Jews struck down all their enemies with {the sword},<note>Literally "the striking of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> killing and destroying <transChange type="added">them</transChange>; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="10">the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not {touch}<note>Literally "send their hand to"</note> the plunder. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="11">On that day the number of those being killed in the citadel of Susa {was reported to}<note>Literally "came before"</note> the king.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="12">And the king said to Queen Esther, "In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your petition? It will be granted to you. And what further <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your request? It will be done."</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="13">Esther replied, "If it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows."</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="14">And the king said to do so. And a decree was issued in Susa and Haman's ten sons were hanged.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="15">And the Jews were gathered who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Susa, and on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not {touch}<note>Literally "send their hand to"</note> the plunder. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="16">The rest of the Jews who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the king's provinces gathered and {defended their lives}<note>Literally "to stand for their live<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> and {found repose}<note>Literally "rested"</note> from their enemies. And they killed seventy-five thousand of those that hated them, but they did not {touch}<note>Literally "send their hand to"</note> the plunder.</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">This was</transChange> on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. <transChange type="added">They</transChange> rested on the fourteenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange> and made it a day of feasting and joy.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="18">But the Jews who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Susa gathered on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day, and rested on the fifteenth day. And they made it a day of feasting and joy.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="19">Therefore the Jews in the rural <transChange type="added">areas</transChange>, living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="20">Mordecai wrote down these things and he sent letters to all the Jews who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the provinces of King Ahasuerus, <transChange type="added">both</transChange> near and far,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="21">to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth <transChange type="added">day</transChange>, {every year},<note>Literally "and every year and year"</note></verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="22">as the day that the Jews {found relief}<note>Literally "rested"</note> from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a {festive day};<note>Literally "a day of good"</note> to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="23">And the Jews adopted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="24">For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the lot, to rout them out and destroy them.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="25">But when it came<note>Or "she came"</note> {to the attention of}<note>Literally "before"</note> the king, he {gave orders in writing}<note>Literally "said with a scroll"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="26">Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="27">the Jews established and adopted <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for themselves and for their offspring, and for all who joined them. They did not neglect {to observe}<note>Literally "to be doing"</note> these two days every year as it was written and appointed to them.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="28">These days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> to be remembered and <transChange type="added">are</transChange> to be kept in every generation, and in family, province, and city; and these days of Purim are not <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> neglected among the Jews, and their memory shall not come to an end among their offspring. </verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="29">So Queen Esther the daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Jew wrote in full authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="30">He sent letters of words of peace and truth to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces<note>Hebrew "province"</note> of Ahasuerus' kingdom,</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="31">to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had imposed, and just as they had imposed on themselves and their offspring regulations of the fast and their lament.</verse>


book: Esth
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<verse num="32">And the command of Esther established these practices of Purim, and <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> written on the scroll. </verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="2">All the work of his authority and his {powerful deeds},<note>Literally "power"</note> and the full accounting of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written on the scroll of the {chronicles}<note>Literally "the events of the days"</note> of the kings of Media and Persia?</verse>


book: Esth
content:
<verse num="3">For Mordecai the Jew <transChange type="added">was</transChange> second-in-command to King Ahasuerus. <transChange type="added">He was</transChange> great for the Jews and popular with many of his brothers, for he sought good for his people, {interceding for the welfare of all his descendants}.<note>Literally "spoke peace for all his offspring"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">There</transChange> was a man in the land of Uz whose<note>Hebrew "his"</note> name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Job. That<note>Hebrew "And that"</note> man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs<note>Hebrew "pair"</note> of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">And his sons used to go and hold a feast {at each other's house}<note>Literally "at the house of a man," or "at the house of each"</note> on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">{Then when}<note>Literally "And it would happen that," or "And it would happen when"</note> the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send},<note>Literally "and Job would send"</note> and he would sanctify them. Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> the number of all of them, because Job thought,<note>Or "said"</note> "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed}<note>Literally "blessed"-- negative meaning by context</note> God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.<note>Or "always"; literally "all the days"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">And it happened {one day}<note>Literally "the day"</note> {that}<note>Literally "and"</note> the sons of God<note>Or "the heavenly beings," or "the angels"</note> came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> also came into their midst.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh said to Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "From where have you come?" </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh said to Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "Have you {considered}<note>Literally "set your heart"</note> my servant Job? Indeed,<note>Or "For," or "Because"</note> there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> answered Yahweh and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Have you<note>Emphatic personal pronoun could be translated "you yourself"</note> not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him}<note>Literally "all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his"</note> {on every side}?<note>Literally "from around"</note> You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock<note>Or "possessions"</note> has increased in the land.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">But,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> on the other hand, stretch out<note>Or "please"</note> your hand and touch {all that belongs to him}<note>Literally "all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his"</note> <transChange type="added">and see</transChange> {whether}<note>Literally "if not"</note> he will {curse}<note>Literally "bless"-- negative meaning by context</note> you to your face." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh said to Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "Look, {all that belongs to him}<note>Literally "all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his"</note> is in your {power}.<note>Literally "hand"</note> Only do not stretch out your hand {against}<note>Literally "to," or "unto"</note> him." So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> went out from Yahweh's {presence}.<note>Literally "faces of"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">And then <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was one day when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.<note>Literally "on their hands"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> the Sabeans {attacked},<note>Literally "fell <transChange type="added">upon them</transChange>"</note> and they took them, and they slew the servants {by the edge of the sword}.<note>Literally "with the mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> I escaped, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> I alone, to tell you." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">While this one was still speaking, {another}<note>Literally "this"</note> came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> I alone, to tell you." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">While this one was still speaking, {another}<note>Literally "this"</note> came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants {by the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "with the mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> but I escaped, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> I alone, to tell you." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">At the time<note>Hebrew "Until"</note> this one was speaking, {another}<note>Literally "this"</note> came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">And behold,<note>Or "Look"</note> a great wind came from across the desert, and it struck the four corners of the house {so that}<note>Literally "and"</note> it fell upon the young people, and they died. But I escaped, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> I alone, to tell you." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Job arose and tore his outer garment<note>Or "robe"</note> and shaved his head; {then}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.<note>Literally "give unseemliness to God"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">{And then}<note>Literally "And it came to be," or "and it happened"</note> one day the sons of God<note>Or "the heavenly beings," or "the angels"</note> came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh {asked}<note>Literally "said to"</note> Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "From where have you come?" </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh {asked}<note>Literally "said to"</note> Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "Have you {considered}<note>Literally "set your heart"</note> my servant Job? Indeed,<note>Or "For" or "Because"</note> there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that}<note>Literally "the"</note> man has he will give for his life.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">But stretch out<note>Or "please"</note> your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, <transChange type="added">and see</transChange> {whether}<note>Literally "if not"</note> he will {curse}<note>Literally "bless"--negative meaning by context</note> you to your face."<note>Hebrew "your faces"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">So<note>Literally "And it happened the/one day"</note> Yahweh said to Satan,<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> "{All right},<note>Literally "Look"</note> he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your {power}.<note>Literally "hand"</note> Only spare his life." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Satan<note>Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"</note> went out from {Yahweh's presence},<note>Literally "the faces of Yahweh"</note> and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{So}<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse}<note>Literally "Bless"--negative meaning by context</note> God and die." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but<note>Or "and"</note> not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> each set out from his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met<note>Or "they agreed"</note> together to come to console him and to comfort him. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> they lifted up their eyes<note>Or "they gazed"</note> from afar, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they did not recognize him, so<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment<note>Or "robe"</note> and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.<note>Or "in the air"; literally "to the heavens"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> they sat with him on the ground <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days and seven nights, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> no one spoke<note>Or "there was no speaking"</note> a word to him because they saw that {his}<note>Literally "the"</note> suffering was very great. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">{Afterward}<note>Literally "After thus"</note> Job opened his mouth and cursed<note>A different term than that employed in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9</note> his day.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Job {spoke up}<note>Literally "answered"</note> and said, </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">"Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Let that day become<note>Or "be"</note> darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds<note>Literally "cloud"</note> settle on it; let them<note>Masculine plural referring to all three entities mentioned in this verse</note> terrify it <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> blackness<note>Literally "blacknesses"</note> of day.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Let darkness seize that night;<note>Literally "That night, let darkness seize it"</note> let it not rejoice among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> year; let it not enter among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> months.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">Look, let that night become<note>Or "be"</note> barren; let a joyful song not enter it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> there be none, and let it not see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyelids of dawn</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">because it did not shut the doors of my <transChange type="added">mother's</transChange> womb, nor<note>Hebrew "And"</note> did it hide trouble from my eyes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"Why did I not die at<note>Literally "from"</note> birth? <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> did I <transChange type="added">not</transChange> come forth from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb and expire?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Why did <transChange type="added">the</transChange> knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}<note>Literally "it would be at rest for me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">with kings and counselors of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, who {rebuild} <note>Literally "build"</note> ruins for themselves,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">or with high officials {who have gold},<note>Literally "gold <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for them"</note> who fill up their houses <transChange type="added">with</transChange> silver.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Or <transChange type="added">why</transChange> was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants <transChange type="added">who</transChange> did not see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">There <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked cease from troubling, and there <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {weary}<note>Literally "weary of strength"</note> are at rest;</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressor's voice.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> small and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great <transChange type="added">are</transChange> there, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slave <transChange type="added">is</transChange> free from his masters.<note>Or "master"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">"Why does he<note>Most likely God</note> give light to one in misery and life to <transChange type="added">those</transChange> bitter of soul,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">who wait for death, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> {it does not come},<note>Literally "it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not"</note> and search<note>Or "dig"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> it more than <transChange type="added">for</transChange> treasures,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">who rejoice {exceedingly},<note>Literally "unto rejoicing"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> they are glad when they find <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grave?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">Why does he<note>Most likely God</note> give light</transChange> to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in <transChange type="added">all</transChange> around?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">For<note>Or perhaps emphatic, "Indeed"</note> my sighing comes {before}<note>Or "in place of" (NET); literally "to the faces of"</note> my bread,<note>Or "food"</note> and my groanings gush forth like water</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">because the dread that I {feel}<note>Literally "dread"</note> has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus<note>Hebrew "and"</note> turmoil has come."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"<transChange type="added">If</transChange> someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> who can refrain from speaking?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Your words have raised up <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not your fear <transChange type="added">in God</transChange> your confidence? <transChange type="added">Is not</transChange> your hope even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> the integrity of your ways?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"{Think}<note>Literally "Remember"</note> now, who has perished <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> innocent? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the upright destroyed?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">Just</transChange> as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">By<note>Or "From"</note> the breath of God they perish, and by<note>Or "from"</note> the blast of his anger they come to an end.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> roar of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of a lion in its prime, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> teeth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young lions are broken.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> lion is perishing without<note>Or "from lack of"</note> prey, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion's whelps are scattered.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received <transChange type="added">the</transChange> whisper from it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> falling of deep sleep on men,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh<note>Or "body"</note> bristled.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">It stood still, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I could not recognize its appearance; a form <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {before}<note>Literally "to before"</note> my eyes; <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a hush, and I heard a voice:</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">{Between morning and evening}<note>Literally "from morning to the evening"</note> they are destroyed; without <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> regarding <transChange type="added">it</transChange> they perish forever.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> not in<note>Or "with"</note> wisdom.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"Call now, is there <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> answering you? And to which of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy ones will you turn?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill <transChange type="added">the</transChange> simple.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">I have seen a fool taking root, but<note>Hebrew "And"</note> suddenly I cursed his dwelling.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">whose harvest <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind}<note>Literally "to from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thorns; and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thirsty pants after their wealth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Indeed,<note>Or "For"</note> mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft}<note>Literally "they make high to fly"</note> <transChange type="added">like</transChange> {sparks}.<note>Literally "children of flame"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"But I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> is doing great and {unsearchable}<note>Literally "there is no searching"</note> things, marvelous things {without number}<note>Literally "until there is no number"</note>--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">the one who is giving rain on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {surface of}<note>Literally "faces of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and is sending water on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {surface of}<note>Literally "faces of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fields,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">to set <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lowly on high, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> mourning are lifted to safety.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> is frustrating <transChange type="added">the</transChange> devices of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> is capturing <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">In the daytime they meet <transChange type="added">with</transChange> darkness, and they grope at noon<note>Or "the noon"</note> as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the night.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">And<note>Or "Thus," or "So"</note> he saves from the sword of<note>Literally "from"</note> their mouth, {even}<note>Literally "and"; the entire verse could be translated "So he saves the poor from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword of their mouth and from the hand of the strong"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor from the hand of the strong.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">So<note>Or "And"</note> there is hope<note>Or "hope exists"</note> for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">"Look, happy <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">for he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> wounds, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he binds up; he strikes, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his hands heal.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">{From}<note>Literally "In," or "By"</note> six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {power of}<note>Literally "hand of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> scourge of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of<note>Hebrew "from"</note> destruction when it comes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">At destruction and famine<note>Hebrew "at famine"</note> you shall laugh, and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">For your covenant <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with the stones of the field, and the wild animals<note>Collective singular</note> of the field will be at peace with you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">And you shall know that your tent <transChange type="added">is</transChange> safe, and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing <transChange type="added">anything</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">And you shall know that your offspring <transChange type="added">are</transChange> many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">You shall come in maturity to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">"Look, we have searched this out--it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> true; hear it and know <transChange type="added">it</transChange> {yourself}."<note>Literally "you for yourself"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together <transChange type="added">with it</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> balances,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">for the arrows of Shaddai <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Does <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild ass bray over grass, or <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ox bellow over its fodder?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Can tasteless <transChange type="added">food</transChange> be eaten without<note>Hebrew "from without"</note> salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">{I refused}<note>Literally "My soul/throat refuses"</note> to touch <transChange type="added">them</transChange>; they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like {food that will make me ill}.<note>Literally "the illness of my bread/food"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"{O that}<note>Literally "Who would give"</note> my request may come, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> God may grant my hope,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> God would decide that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he would crush me, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he would let loose his hand and {kill me}.<note>Literally "he would cut me off"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting}<note>Literally "he/it does not have compassion," or "he/it does not have pity," or "he/it does not spare"</note> pain, for I have not denied <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Holy One.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strength, that I should wait? And what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my end, that {I should hold out}?<note>Literally "I should make my self long," or "I should lengthen my self"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Or <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strength <transChange type="added">like</transChange> the strength of stones? Or <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my flesh bronze?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">{Indeed},<note>An interrogative marker plus "if"</note> my help is not in me, and <transChange type="added">any</transChange> success is driven from me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">"Loyal love<note>Or "Kindness"</note> <transChange type="added">should come</transChange> for the afflicted <transChange type="added">from</transChange> his friend, even if<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis<note>A seasonal stream that is often dry</note> they flow away,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">In time they dry up, they disappear; when it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> hot, they vanish from their place.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">The paths of their way wind <transChange type="added">around</transChange>; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came {here}<note>Literally "up to it"</note> and they are confounded.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">"For now you<note>Plural throughout the rest of this chapter</note> have become {such};<note>Literally "to it," or "for it"</note> you see terrors, and you fear.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Is it because I have said, 'Give to me,' or,<note>Hebrew "and"</note> 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">or,<note>Hebrew "and"</note> 'Save me from the foe's hand,' or,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> 'Ransom me from the tyrants' hand'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Teach me, and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">How painful are {upright words}!<note>Literally "words of uprightness"</note> But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> what does {your reproof}<note>Literally "reproving from you"</note> reprove?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">Do you intend to reprove <transChange type="added">my</transChange> words<note>Or "Do you intend to reprove <transChange type="added">with</transChange> words"</note> and <transChange type="added">consider the</transChange> words of a desperate <transChange type="added">man</transChange> as wind?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">Even over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">"{Therefore}<note>Literally "And now," or "And so then"</note> be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face.<note>Hebrew "faces"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed,<note>Hebrew "and"</note> turn, {my righteousness is still intact}.<note>Literally "still my righteousness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?<note>Or "calamities"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"Does not {a human being<note>Or a collective singular, "human beings"</note> have hard service}<note>Literally "hard service for a human being"</note> on earth? And <transChange type="added">are not</transChange> his<note>Or a collective singular, "their"</note> days like the days of a laborer?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Like a slave he longs for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">So {I had to inherit}<note>Literally "I am allotted to me"</note> months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">When I lie down, I say,<note>Hebrew "and I say"</note> 'When shall I rise?' But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">My body is clothed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it gives way <transChange type="added">again</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.<note>Literally "with nothing hope"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">Remember that my life <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a breath; my eye will not return to see good.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">The eye of <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> seeing me will not see me; your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon me, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> {I will be gone}.<note>Literally "there is not me," or "I am not"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so <transChange type="added">he who</transChange> goes down to Sheol will not come up.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"Even<note>Or "I on my part"</note> I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's<note>Or "soul's"</note> bitterness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Am I <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch<note>Or "bed"</note> will ease my complaint,'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you terrify me with dreams,<note>Or "the dreams"</note> and with visions you terrify<note>Or "dishearten," or "frighten"</note> me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">So<note>Or "And"</note> my inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> will choose<note>Or "I will choose"</note> strangling-- death more than my {existence}.<note>Literally "bones"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">I loathe <transChange type="added">my life</transChange>; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a breath.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">"What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},<note>Literally "you set on him your heart"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you visit him {every morning},<note>Literally "for mornings," or "at mornings"</note> you test him {every moment}?<note>Literally "for moments," or "at moments"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">{How long}<note>Literally "Like what"</note> will you not turn away from me? <transChange type="added">Or</transChange> not leave me alone until I swallow<note>Or "my swallowing"</note> my spit?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">If</transChange> I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have become a burden to myself?<note>Some translations translate as "you" (e.g., ESV, NRSV, NIV, NET)</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> {I will be no more}."<note>Literally "there is not me," or "I am not"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,<note>Hebrew "he said"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> will you say these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and the words of your mouth <transChange type="added">be</transChange> a mighty wind?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Does God pervert justice, {or}<note>Literally "and if"</note> Shaddai pervert righteousness?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">If your children sinned against him, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he sent them into the {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of their transgression.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">If you yourself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> would seek God, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you would plead to Shaddai for grace.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> pure and upright, indeed,<note>Or "even," or "yes"</note> now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">Though<note>Hebrew "And"</note> your beginning was small, your end<note>Hebrew "and your end"</note> will be very great.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"Indeed,<note>Or "For"</note> please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">as</transChange> to the finding of their fathers"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">for we <transChange type="added">are of</transChange> yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a shadow.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Will they themselves<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> not teach you <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {tell you}<note>Literally "they will say to you"</note> and {utter}<note>Literally "they will bring out"</note> words from their heart?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Can papyrus grow tall where <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?<note>Or "<transChange type="added">where there is</transChange> no water"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">While it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in its flower <transChange type="added">and</transChange> is not plucked, yet<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it withers {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> all grass.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">So <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the paths of all who forget God; and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hope of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless will perish,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">whose confidence is cut off and {whose trust}<note>Literally "his trust"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a spider's house.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">He will lean himself against his house, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it will not endure.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {thriving}<note>Literally "soaked," or "well-watered"</note> {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">If he destroys him from his place, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it deceives him, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, 'I have never seen you.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">Look, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">"Look, God will not reject <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">Yet he will fill your mouth <transChange type="added">with</transChange> laughter and your lips <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a shout of joy.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">Those</transChange> who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."<note>Literally "there is not it," or "it is not"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Truly I know that <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> so, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> how can a human being be just before God?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one <transChange type="added">time</transChange> in a thousand.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">He is</transChange> wise in<note>Hebrew "of"</note> heart and mighty in<note>Hebrew "of"</note> strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?<note>Literally "he succeeded"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"<transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who moves mountains, and they do not know <transChange type="added">how</transChange>, who overturns them in his anger.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who shakes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth from its place, and its pillars tremble.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who commands the sun, and it does not rise, {and he seals up the stars}.<note>Literally "and behind <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars he seals up"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who alone stretches out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> tramples on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waves of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Bear <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Orion, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Pleiades and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> constellations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">He is the one</transChange> who does great things {beyond understanding}<note>Literally "until there is not understanding"</note> and marvelous things {beyond number}.<note>Literally "until there is not number"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"{If}<note>Literally "Look"</note> he passes by me, {I would not see him};<note>Literally "and I would not see"</note> and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he should move on, {I would not recognize him}.<note>Literally "and I would not recognize him"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">{If}<note>Literally "Look"</note> he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">{How much less}<note>Literally "Also for"</note> can I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> answer him? <transChange type="added">How</transChange> can I choose my words with him,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From<note>Hebrew "To"</note> my judge I must implore grace.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">If I summon <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies<note>Hebrew "he multiplies"</note> my wounds without cause.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">He will not allow me to {catch}<note>Literally "return," or "regain"</note> my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">If {it is a matter of}<note>Literally "for"; see NASB, NIV, NET</note> strength, look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> mighty. But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> if {it is a matter of}<note>Literally "for"; NASB, NIV, NET, NRSV</note> justice, who can summon me?<note>Or "arraign me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; <transChange type="added">even though</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> blameless, yet<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it would pronounce me guilty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">"I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> blameless; I do not care about myself;<note>Perhaps the meaning is "but it makes no difference to me" (NLT)</note> I loathe my life.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">It <transChange type="added">is all</transChange> one; therefore I say, 'He destroys <transChange type="added">both the</transChange> blameless and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">When the whip<note>Or "scourge"</note> kills suddenly, he mocks at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> despair of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">The earth is given into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked; he covers the face of its judge-- if <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not <transChange type="added">he</transChange>, then who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on <transChange type="added">its</transChange> prey.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">Though<note>Or "If"</note> {I say},<note>Literally "my saying"</note> 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">If</transChange> I shall be <transChange type="added">declared</transChange> guilty, why then should I labor in vain?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">If I wash myself with soap,<note>Or "with snow," or "in snow"</note> and I cleanse my hands with lye,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">then you plunge me into the <transChange type="added">slime</transChange> pit, and my clothes abhor me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">"For<note>Or the emphatic "Indeed"</note> <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> not a mortal like me <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I can answer him, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {we can come to trial together}.<note>Literally "we come together in the justice," or "we come together in the judgment"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">There is no arbiter between us <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he might lay his hand on both of us.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="35"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> I would speak and not fear him,<note>Hebrew "and I will not fear him"</note> for {in myself I am not fearful}.<note>Literally "not so I with me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"My inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint};<note>Literally "I want to let go upon me my complaint"</note> I want to speak out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bitterness of my inner self.<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend <transChange type="added">against</transChange> me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">{Do you have eyes of flesh}?<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> eyes of flesh for you"</note> Or {do you see as human beings see}?<note>Literally "as seeing of human being<transChange type="added">s</transChange> you see"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">Are</transChange> your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Your hands fashioned me and made me<note>Hebrew "they made me"</note> {altogether},<note>Literally "together all around"</note> then<note>Or "and"</note> you destroyed me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Please<note>Or an untranslatable particle expressing urgency</note> remember that you made me like clay, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you turn me into dust <transChange type="added">again</transChange>?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me}<note>Literally "you did curdle me"</note> like cheese?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">You clothed me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> skin and flesh, and you knit me together with bones and sinews.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">" 'Yet<note>Hebrew "And"</note> you hid these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in your heart; I know that this {was your purpose}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> with you"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">If I had sinned, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">If I am guilty, woe to me! But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> shame, and <transChange type="added">just</transChange> look <transChange type="added">at</transChange> my misery!</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">And <transChange type="added">if my head</transChange> grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.<note>Literally "and you do again you display marvelous powers against me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; {relief forces}<note>Literally "substitute and force<transChange type="added">s</transChange>"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.<note>Literally "and an eye should not have seen me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb to the grave.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">Are</transChange> not my days few? Let him leave <transChange type="added">me</transChange> alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">Before I go--and I will not return-- to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of darkness and deep shadow,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of darkness, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos},<note>Literally "and not order"</note> so that<note>Or "and"</note> it shines forth like darkness.'"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk}<note>Literally "a man of lips"</note> be vindicated?<note>Hebrew "should he be vindicated"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?<note>Literally "And you will mock there is not putting to shame"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">For you say, 'My teaching <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure, and I am clean in your sight.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">But,<note>Hebrew "And but"</note> {O that}<note>Literally "who shall give"</note> God might speak, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he would open his lips to you,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he would tell you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> secrets of wisdom, for {insight has many sides}.<note>Literally "double to sound wisdom"</note> And know that God {on your behalf}<note>Literally "for you"</note> has forgotten {some of}<note>Literally "from"</note> your guilt.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"Can you find <transChange type="added">out</transChange> the essence of God, or can you find <transChange type="added">out</transChange> {the ultimate limits}<note>Literally "up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> limit"</note> of Shaddai?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{It is higher than the heaven};<note>Literally "heights of heaven"</note> what can you do? <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> deeper than Sheol; what can you know?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Its measure <transChange type="added">is</transChange> longer than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and broader than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">"If he passes through and imprisons someone<note>Hebrew "and he imprisons"</note> {and summons the assembly},<note>Literally "and he summons"</note> then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> who can hinder him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">For he knows {those who are worthless};<note>Literally "men of worthlessness"</note> {when he sees}<note>Literally "And he will see"</note> iniquity, {he will not consider it}.<note>Literally "and he will not consider"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> {an empty-headed person}<note>Literally "a man hollowed out"</note> will get understanding when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> a wild donkey's colt is born <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a human being.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"If you yourself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">if iniquity<note>See v. 11, where the same word is used</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">surely then you will lift up your face without<note>Hebrew "from"</note> blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.<note>Hebrew "and not will you fear"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">For you yourself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will forget your misery; you will remember <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as water <transChange type="added">that</transChange> has flowed past.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">"{And your life will be brighter than noon};<note>Literally "And from noon lifespan will arise"</note> <transChange type="added">its</transChange> darkness will be like the morning.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected--{you will sleep in safety}.<note>Literally "you will lie down securely"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">And you will lie down, and {no one will make you afraid};<note>Literally "there is not making afraid"</note> {and many will entreat your favor}.<note>Literally "and they will appease/implore your faces many"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {to breathe their last breath}."<note>Literally "the expiring of soul"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Truly indeed you<note>Plural</note> <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> people, and wisdom will die with you.<note>Plural</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">{I also have insight}<note>Literally "Also for me heart"</note> like you;<note>Plural</note> I am not more inferior than you.<note>Plural</note> And {who does not know things like these}?<note>Literally "and who there is not like these"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">I am a laughingstock to my friends:<note>Hebrew "to his friends"</note> '<transChange type="added">He</transChange> calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a laughingstock.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">{Those at ease have contempt}<note>Literally "Contempt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> according to the thought of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> complacent"</note> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thought of {disaster},<note>Literally "a torch"</note> <transChange type="added">but it is</transChange> ready for those unstable of foot.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> tents of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyers are at peace, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> security for those who provoke God, <transChange type="added">for those</transChange> whom God brings into his hand.<note>Or "power"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> ask<note>Or "ask now," or "please ask"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">In whose hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the life of all living things and {the breath of every human being}?<note>Literally "the breath of all the flesh of man"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Does not <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ear test words and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palate taste food for itself?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Wisdom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> aged, and understanding <transChange type="added">is in</transChange> length of days.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"With him <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him <transChange type="added">belong</transChange> counsel and understanding.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">If he tears down, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he cannot be freed.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Look, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he withholds the water,<note>Or "waters"</note> then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they dry up; and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he sends them out, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they overwhelm <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">"Strength and sound wisdom <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deceived and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deceiver <transChange type="added">are</transChange> his.<note>Or "for him"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">He loosens <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">He leads priests away stripped, and he overthrows {the members of ancient families}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> constant"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">He deprives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trustworthy of speech, and he takes away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> discretion of elders.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens <transChange type="added">the</transChange> girdle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">"He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">He makes the nations great, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he destroys them; he expands the nations, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he guides them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">He strips <transChange type="added">away</transChange> the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.<note>Literally "in a wasteland not a way"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">They grope <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the dark {without}<note>Literally "and not"</note> light, and he makes them stagger like a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> drunkard.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">{What you<note>Plural</note> know},<note>Literally "Like your knowledge"</note> I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> also know-- I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not more inferior than you.<note>Plural</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">"But<note>Or "And but"</note> you<note>Plural</note> {whitewash with lies};<note>Literally "coverers of lies"</note> all of you<note>Plural</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {worthless healers}.<note>Literally "healers of worthlessness"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">{O that}<note>Literally "Who shall give"</note> you<note>Plural</note> would keep completely silent, and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> it would become wisdom for you.<note>Plural</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Please hear my argument, and listen attentively <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> pleadings of my lips.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"Will you<note>Plural</note> speak falsely for God? And will you<note>Plural</note> speak deceitfully for him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{Will you<note>Plural</note> show partiality for him}?<note>Literally "his faces will you raise"</note> Or do you<note>Plural</note> want to plead God's case?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">Will it be</transChange> well, if he examines you?<note>Plural</note> Or can you<note>Plural</note> deceive him like deceiving a human being?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">"Surely he will rebuke you<note>Plural</note> if {you<note>Plural</note> show partiality}<note>Literally "faces you lift up"</note> in secret.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Will not his majesty terrify you,<note>Plural</note> and his dread fall upon you?<note>Plural</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Your<note>Plural</note> maxims <transChange type="added">are</transChange> proverbs of ashes; your<note>Plural</note> defenses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> defenses of clay.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"{Let me have silence},<note>Literally "Be silent away from me"</note> and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will speak, and let come over me whatever <transChange type="added">may</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and<note>Hebrew "now"</note> put<note>Or "should I put," or "will I put"</note> my life in my hand?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Look,<note>Or "Though"</note> <transChange type="added">though</transChange> he kill me, I will hope in<note>Or "for"</note> him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.<note>Literally "to his faces"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Moreover, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> salvation to me, that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless would not come {before him}.<note>Literally "to his faces"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">"Listen carefully <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my words, and <transChange type="added">let</transChange> my exposition <transChange type="added">be</transChange> in your ears.</verse>


