# bible

book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">They were a wall to us both night and day, all {the days we were}<note>Literally "the days of our being"</note> with them keeping the sheep.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="17">And so then, know and {consider}<note>Literally "see"</note> what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he <transChange type="added">is such</transChange> {a wicked man},<note>Literally "a son of uselessness"</note> {nobody can reason with him}!"<note>Literally "from speaking to him"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="18">Then Abigail {quickly took}<note>Literally "hastened and took"</note> two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the donkeys.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="19">Then she said to her servants, "Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you," but she did not tell her husband Nabal.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="20">{And then},<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> <transChange type="added">as</transChange> she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> riding on the donkey and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> coming down to meet her, and she met them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="21">Now David had said, "Surely {in vain}<note>Literally "for the vanity"</note> I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his, but he returned evil against me in place of good!</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="22">{May God severely punish the enemies of David}<note>Literally "May God do so to the enemies of David"; following the LXX some English versions omit the words "the enemies of"</note> and again do thus if I leave behind {anything that is his}<note>Literally "from all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for him"</note> until the morning, <transChange type="added">not even</transChange> {one male}!"<note>Literally "from one urinating against a wall"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="23">When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell on her face before {David's anger},<note>Literally "the nostrils of David"</note> and she bowed down to the ground.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="24">She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, <transChange type="added">be</transChange> the guilt! Please let your female servant speak {to you personally}!<note>Literally "in your ears"</note> Hear the words of your female servant!</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="25">Please do not let my lord set his heart against {this worthless man},<note>Literally "this man of wickedness"</note> Nabal; for as his name, so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he. Nabal <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name, and stupidity <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young men<note>Or "the servants"</note> of my lord whom you sent.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="26">So then, my lord, {as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> life of your soul"</note> since Yahweh restrained you from bloodguilt {by taking matters into your own hand},<note>Literally "saving your hand for you"</note> so then, may your enemies be like Nabal, even {those who seek to do my lord harm}.<note>Literally "the seeking to my lord evil"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="27">So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men {who follow my lord}.<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> going about at the feet of my lord"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="28">Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting house<note>That is, a lasting dynasty</note> for my lord, because my lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you {as long as you live}.<note>Literally "from your days"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="29">Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouch<note>Or "bag"</note> of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from within<note>Hebrew "in the midst of"</note> the pocket of the sling!</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="30">{And then}<note>Literally "And it will happen"</note> when Yahweh has done for my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you as leader over Israel,</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="31">then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of conscience for my lord <transChange type="added">either</transChange> by the shedding of blood without cause or by {my lord taking matters into his own hands}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> saving of my lord for himself"</note> And when Yahweh does good to my lord, then remember your female servant." </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="32">Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has sent you this day to meet me!</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="33">And blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you who have prevented me this day from bloodguilt and <transChange type="added">from</transChange> delivering myself by my own hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="34">But {as Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> the God of Israel who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been {one male}<note>Literally "one urinating against a wall"</note> left alive for Nabal by the light of morning!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="35">Then David took from her hand what she had brought for him, and he said to her, "Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to your voice, and I have {granted your request}."<note>Literally "lifted up your face"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="36">Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, {he was holding a feast}<note>Literally "a feast <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for him"</note> in his house like the feast of the king. {Nabal was enjoying himself},<note>Literally "the heart of Nabal <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good on him"</note> and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, {nothing at all},<note>Literally "small or large"</note> until the light of morning.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="37">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> in the morning when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words. Then his heart died {within him},<note>Literally "in his midst"</note> and he became like a stone.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="38">{And then},<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> about ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal and he died. </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="39">When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be Yahweh who has vindicated the case of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and he has kept back his servant from evil; but Yahweh has returned the evil of Nabal on his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> head." Then David sent and spoke with Abigail to take her for his wife.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="40">So the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you for his wife."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="41">She got up and bowed down <transChange type="added">with</transChange> her face to the ground and said, "Here is your female servant, as a slave to wash the feet of my lord's servants."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="42">Then Abigail {quickly got up}<note>Literally "hastened and got up"</note> and rode on the donkey, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> five of her maidservants who {attended her},<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> going about at her feet"</note> and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife. </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="43">David had also taken Ahinoam from Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="44">(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Gallim.) </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="1">The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah opposite Jeshimon?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="2">Then Saul got up and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now Saul was on the hill of Hakilah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> opposite Jeshimon by the road, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness after him,</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="4">David sent spies, and he learned that Saul had come {for certain}.<note>Literally "to be established"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="5">Then David got up and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying down, {as well as}<note>Literally "and"</note> Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. (Now Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying in the encampment, and the army <transChange type="added">was</transChange> encamping around him.) </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah the brother of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul, in the camp?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="7">So David and Abishai came to the army <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night, and {there was}<note>Literally "look" or "behold"</note> Saul lying asleep in the encampment with<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his spear thrust into the ground near his head, and Abner and the army <transChange type="added">were</transChange> lying all around him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="8">Then Abishai said to David, "God has handed over your enemy into your hand today! So then, {please let me pin him to the ground with the spear}<note>Literally "let me strike him please with the spear and in the ground"</note> {one time},<note>Literally "one occurrence"</note> and {I will not strike him twice}."<note>Literally "I will not repeat for him"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="9">But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy<note>Or "kill"</note> him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh's anointed one and remained blameless?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="10">And David said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> {certainly}<note>Literally "if surely"</note> Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and {perish}.<note>Literally "will be carried away"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="11">{Yahweh forbid me}<note>Literally "Far be it from me from Yahweh"</note> from stretching out my hand against Yahweh's anointed one! So then, please take the spear that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near his head and the jar of water, and let us go."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="12">So David took the spear and the jar of water from <transChange type="added">near</transChange> Saul's head, and they went <transChange type="added">away</transChange>. {No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened},<note>Literally "there was not <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> seeing and there was not <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> knowing and there was not <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> awakening"</note> for all of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David went to the other side and stood on the top of the hill at a distance; the distance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> great between them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="14">David called out to the army and to Abner the son of Ner, "Will you not answer, Abner?" And Abner answered and said, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you call to the king?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="15">So David said to Abner, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you not a man? And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy<note>Or "to kill"</note> your lord the king.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="16">This thing that you have done <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not good. {As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> {surely you people deserve to die}<note>Literally "you are sons of death"</note> since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh's anointed one! So then, see where the king's spear <transChange type="added">is</transChange> and the jar of water that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> near his head!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="17">Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> my voice, my lord the king."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="18">Then he said, "Why <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in my hand?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">And so then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant: If Yahweh has incited you against me, may he delight in an offering; but if {it is mortals},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">it is</transChange> the sons of humankind"</note> <transChange type="added">may</transChange> they be accursed {before}<note>Literally "to the face of"</note> Yahweh, for they have driven me away today from sharing in the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="20">And so then, do not let my blood fall to the ground {away from}<note>Literally "from before"</note> the presence of Yahweh, for the king of Israel has gone out to seek a single flea, as one hunts a partridge in the mountains." </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="21">Then Saul said, "I have sinned! Come back, David my son, for I will not harm you again, because my life <transChange type="added">was</transChange> precious in your eyes this day. Look, I have acted like a fool and {have made a terrible mistake}."<note>Literally "have gone greatly astray"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="22">David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear; let one of the young men<note>Or "servants"</note> come over and take it.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="23">Yahweh repays to each <transChange type="added">one</transChange> his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh's anointed.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="24">Look, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, may my life be great in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me from all trouble."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="25">Then Saul said to David, "Blessed are you, my son David; {you will not only do many things, but also will always succeed}!"<note>Literally "you will do many things and also always you will prevail"</note> Then David went on his way and Saul returned to his place. </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="1">Then David {thought to himself},<note>Literally "said to his heart"</note> "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I must certainly escape to the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="2">So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="3">David settled with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each with his household.<note>Or "family"</note> David <transChange type="added">took along</transChange> his two wives Ahinoam {from Jezreel}<note>Literally "the Jezreelitess"</note> and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="4">And it was reported to Saul that David had fled <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Gath, so {he no longer searched for him}.<note>Literally "he does <transChange type="added">Qere did</transChange> not again to seek him longer"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="5">Then David said to Achish, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, then let them give me a place in one of the {country towns}<note>Literally "towns of the open field"</note> that I can live there. Why should your servant live in {the royal city}<note>Literally "the city of the king"</note> with you?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="6">So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this day.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="7">The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one year and four months. </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="8">Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the land for a long time {in the direction of}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">as</transChange> you come"</note> Shur and {as far as}<note>Literally "up to"</note> the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="9">So David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive; he took the sheep,<note>Hebrew "flock," referring to either sheep or goats or both</note> the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="10">And Achish said, "Against whom have you raided today?" David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="11">And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring <transChange type="added">them back</transChange> to Gath, thinking,<note>Hebrew "saying"</note> "So that they will not report about us, saying, 'David did thus and so.'" Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="12">And Achish trusted David, saying, "{He has made himself utterly hated}<note>Literally "Stinking he stink" = "he really stinks"</note> among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever." </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="1">{Now}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> in those days <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines gathered their forces for war to fight against Israel. So Achish said to David, "Certainly you realize that you must go out with me in the army, you and your men."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="2">David said to Achish, "Very well, you will know what your servant can do." Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you {my bodyguard}<note>Literally "the keeper of my head"</note> for life." </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="3">(Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him, and they had buried him in Ramah, his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> city. And Saul had expelled the mediums<note>Or "necromancers"</note> and the soothsayers from the land.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="4">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem, so Saul assembled all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="5">When Saul saw the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="6">And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim<note>A device for revealing God's decisions; see Exod 28:30; Num 27:21; Neh 7:65; Prov 16:33</note> or by the prophets.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="7">So Saul said to his servants, "Search for me {a woman who is a medium}<note>Literally "a woman of an owner of a spirit of the dead" (= "a woman who owns a ritual pit for summoning spirits of the dead")</note> so that I may go to her and inquire of her." His servants said to him, "Look <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a woman who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a medium in Endor."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="8">So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went {with two of his men}.<note>Literally "and two of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> men with him"</note> And they came to the woman <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night and he said, "Please consult a spirit for me through {the ritual pit},<note>Literally "the spirit of the dead"</note> and bring up for me <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom I tell you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="9">But the woman said to him, "Look, you know what Saul did, how he exterminated the mediums<note>Or "necromancers"</note> and the soothsayers from the land! Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you setting a trap for my life to kill me?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="10">Then Saul swore to her by Yahweh, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> {you will not be punished}<note>Literally "guilt will not meet you"</note> for this thing."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="11">So the woman asked, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="12">When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and the woman said to Saul, "Why did you deceive me? You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Saul!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="13">The king said to her, "Do not be afraid! What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god<note>Or "a divine being"</note> coming up from the ground!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="14">Then he said to her, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his appearance?" She said, "An old man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming up, and {he is wrapped in a robe}."<note>Literally "he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wrapping himself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a robe"</note> Then Saul realized that it was Samuel, and he knelt <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his face to the ground and bowed down. </verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="15">Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" And Saul said, "{I am in distress}!<note>Literally "Great distress <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me"</note> For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are about</transChange> to make war against me, but God has turned away from me, and he does not answer me any more, not {by the prophets}<note>Literally "by the hand of the prophets"</note> or by the dreams. So I called to you to let me know what I should do."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="16">Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy?</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="17">Yahweh has done to you just as he spoke by my hand! Yahweh has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor, to David.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="18">Because you {did not obey}<note>Literally "did not listen to"</note> Yahweh and did not carry out the fierce anger of his {wrath}<note>Literally "face"</note> against Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="19">And Yahweh will also give Israel with you into the hands of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with me, and Yahweh will also give the army of Israel into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="20">{Then Saul immediately fell prostrate}<note>Literally "Saul did at once and fell <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the fullness of his height"</note> to the ground, and he was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was no more strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="21">Then the woman came to Saul and realized that he was absolutely<note>Hebrew "very"</note> terrified, so she said to him, "Look, your female servant {has obeyed you},<note>Literally "has listened to your voice"</note> and I have {risked my life}.<note>Literally "I have put my life in my palm"</note> I have listened to your words that you have spoken to me.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="22">So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and <transChange type="added">you</transChange> eat so that {you will have strength}<note>Literally "it will be your strength"</note> in you when you go on your<note>Hebrew "the"</note> way."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="23">But he refused and said, "I will not eat!" However, his servants urged him, and the woman also. So he listened {to what they said},<note>Literally "their voice"</note> and he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="24">Now the woman had a fattened bull calf in the house, {so she quickly slaughtered it}<note>Literally "and she did quickly and she slaughtered it"</note> and took flour, kneaded <transChange type="added">dough</transChange>, and baked him <transChange type="added">some</transChange> unleavened bread.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that <transChange type="added">very</transChange> night. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines assembled all their forces at Aphek, and Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> encamped at the spring that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Jezreel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">The rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> passing on according to hundreds and thousands, David and his men passing on at the rear with Achish.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then the commanders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines said, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these Hebrews <transChange type="added">doing here</transChange>?" And Achish said to the commanders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, who has been with me {for days and years}?<note>Literally "these days or these years"</note> I have not found anything <transChange type="added">threatening</transChange> in him from the day of his desertion until this day!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">But the commanders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, "Send the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this not David about whom they sing in the dances, saying, </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Achish called David and said to him, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> certainly you were honest, and {I am pleased to have you marching with me}<note>Literally "good in my eyes your going out and your coming in with me"</note> in the campaign.<note>Or "army"</note> For I have not found any wrong in you from the day you came to me until this day, but in the eyes of the rulers, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not good.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So then, return and go in peace, so that you do not do {something that displeases}<note>Literally "bad/evil in the eyes of"</note> the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then David said to Achish, "But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I {entered your service}<note>Literally "that I was to your face" = "was before you"</note> until this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">And Achish answered and said to David, "I know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> good in my eyes, like an angel of God! However, the commanders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us into the battle.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So then, rise early in the morning, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> and the servants of your lord who came with you. When you rise early in the morning and it is light <transChange type="added">enough</transChange> for you, leave.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So David set out early, he and his men, to leave in the morning to return to the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jezreel. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{Now}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> when David and his men came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ziklag on the third day, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites had raided <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Negev and Ziklag. When they attacked Ziklag, they burned it with fire.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">They took captive the women<note>LXX adds "and all"</note> who were in it, {from the youngest to the oldest}.<note>Literally "from small and up to great"</note> They did not kill anyone, but carried <transChange type="added">them</transChange> off and went on their way.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">When David and his men came to the city, {they saw},<note>Literally "and look"</note> and <transChange type="added">it</transChange> was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then David and the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him raised their voices and wept until there was not <transChange type="added">enough</transChange> strength in them to weep.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Two of David's wives had been taken captive. Ahinoam {from Jezreel}<note>Literally "the Jezreelitess"</note> and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">And {David was in a very precarious situation},<note>Literally "it was very pressed for David"</note> for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each <transChange type="added">one</transChange> over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here for me." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should I pursue after this band <transChange type="added">of raiders</transChange>? Will I overtake them?" He said to him, "Pursue <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue them."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the Wadi<note>A valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Besor, but the rest remained.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">David pursued, he and four hundred men; but two hundred men stayed because they were too exhausted to pass over the Wadi Besor. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then they found an Egyptian man in the open country and brought him to David, and they gave him food and he ate; they also gave him water.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">They gave him a slice of fig cake and two raisin cakes; he ate and {this revived him},<note>Literally "his spirit returned to him"</note> because he had not eaten food or drunk water <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three days and three nights.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David said to him, "{To whom do you belong},<note>Literally "To whom <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you"</note> and from where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you? The young man said, "I am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">We raided the Negev of the Kerethites and that <transChange type="added">which belongs</transChange> to Judah and then the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So David asked him, "Will you take me down to this band <transChange type="added">of raiders</transChange>?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into my master's hand! Then I will take you down to this band."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So he took him down, and {there they were},<note>Literally "look"</note> spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and from the land of Judah.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped {except}<note>Literally "but if"</note> four hundred young men who rode <transChange type="added">off</transChange> on camels and fled.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So David recovered all that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites had taken; David also rescued his two wives.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">None of theirs <transChange type="added">was</transChange> missing {from the smallest to the greatest},<note>Literally "from the small and up to the great"</note> even sons and daughters, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">And David took all of the sheep,<note>Hebrew "flock," referring to either sheep or goats or both</note> and the cattle they drove along in front of that livestock, and they said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> David's plunder." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then David came to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two hundred men {who had been too exhausted to follow}<note>Literally "who were exhausted from going after"</note> David; they had left them behind at the Wadi<note>A valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Besor. They went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. David came near with the people and {asked them how they were doing}.<note>Literally "asked for them as far as peace"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from the plunder which we recovered, {except}<note>Literally "but if"</note> each <transChange type="added">man may take</transChange> his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">But David said to them, "You should not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us! He has preserved us and has given the <transChange type="added">raiding</transChange> band that came against us into our hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">And who would listen to you regarding this matter? For as the share of the one who went down into the battle, so the share of the one who remained with the baggage will be. They will share alike."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">So<note>Or "And"</note> from that day and beyond, he made it a rule and a regulation for Israel until this day. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Then David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "{Here is}<note>Literally "Look"</note> a gift for you from the plunder of the enemies of Yahweh!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">It was</transChange> for those in Bethel, for those in Ramoth of the Negev, for those in Jattir,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">for those in Racal, for those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, for those in the towns of the Kenites,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">for those in Hebron, and for all the places {where David and his men had roamed}.<note>Literally "where David had gone about there, he and his men"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and they fell slain on Mount Gilboa.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">{Saul was in the thick of the battle},<note>Literally "The battle weighed heavily on Saul"</note> and {the archers}<note>Literally "the shooters, the men with the bow"</note> spotted<note>Hebrew "found"</note> him, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> badly wounded by the archers.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then Saul said to {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "the carrier of his weapons"</note> "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "the carrier of his weapons"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing <transChange type="added">to do so</transChange> because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">And when {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "the carrier of his weapons"</note> saw that Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Saul died, and his three sons, {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "the carrier of his weapons"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> all his men together that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> day. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">And when the men of Israel who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the other side of the valley and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who were beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Thus <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came and lived in them. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">{And then}<note>Literally, "And it happened"</note> the next day, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying <transChange type="added">dead</transChange> on Mount Gilboa.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent <transChange type="added">messengers</transChange> around in the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines to proclaim <transChange type="added">victory in</transChange> the temples<note>Or "houses"</note> of their idols and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the people.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">And they put his armor <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of the Ashtoreth,<note>Hebrew plural "Ashtaroth" (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba'al)</note> and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had done to Saul,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">all of {the valiant men}<note>Literally "the men of ability"</note> set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then they took their bones and buried <transChange type="added">them</transChange> under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven days. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{After}<note>Literally "And it happened after"</note> the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and he stayed at Ziklag two days.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">On the third day, a man came from the camp from <transChange type="added">being with</transChange> Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. {When he came}<note>Literally "And it happened at his coming"</note> to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">David said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then David said to him, "{How did things go}?<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the thing"</note> Please tell me." He answered, "{When}<note>Literally "That"</note> the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then David asked the young man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">The young man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reporting to him said, "I merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen <transChange type="added">were</transChange> getting close to him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">When he turned around and saw me, he called to me, and I said, 'Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then he said to me, 'Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?' And I said to him, 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> an Amalekite.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life <transChange type="added">is still</transChange> in me.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on his head and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bracelet which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">David grabbed <transChange type="added">at</transChange> his clothes and tore them, <transChange type="added">as did</transChange> all of the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, <transChange type="added">as well</transChange> as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David said to the young man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> reporting to him, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you from?" And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the son of an alien man. I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> an Amalekite."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">David said to him, "How <transChange type="added">is it that</transChange> you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed one?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then David called to one of the young men and said to him, "Come near; strike him." So he struck him down and he died.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">David said to him, "Your blood <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on your head, for your mouth has testified against you by saying, 'I killed Yahweh's anointed one!'" </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">And he ordered "The Bow" to be taught to the children of Judah. Look, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> written on the scroll of Jashar.<note>The Book of Jashar ("the upright") is also mentioned in Josh 10:13.</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">"The glory of Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on your high places; how <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty have fallen!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Do not tell it in Gath; do not proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">O mountains of Gilboa, <transChange type="added">let there be</transChange> no dew or rain upon you or on the fields of <transChange type="added">grain for</transChange> offerings, for there the small shield of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty <transChange type="added">was</transChange> defiled, the small shield of Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not anointed with oil.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">From the blood of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> slain, from the fat of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return {without effect}.<note>Literally "empty handedly"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Saul and Jonathan <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beloved and pleasant in their lives and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not separated in their death. They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, the one who clothed you with crimson, the one who {adorned your clothing with golden ornaments}.<note>Literally "put gold ornaments on your clothing"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle; Jonathan <transChange type="added">lies</transChange> slain on your high places.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">{I am distressed}<note>Literally "Distress <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me"</note> over you, my brother Jonathan. you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> very dear to me; your love <transChange type="added">was</transChange> more wonderful to me than the love of women.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">How <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty have fallen and the weapons of warfare perished."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">It happened after this that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David asked, "Where shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So David went up there {along with}<note>Literally "and also"</note> his two wives, Ahinoam {from Jezreel}<note>Literally "the Jezreelitess"</note> and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Also, David brought up his men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, each {with}<note>Literally "and"</note> his household, and they settled in the towns of Hebron. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then the men of Judah came, and they anointed David there as king over the house of Judah, and they told David, "The men of Jabesh-Gilead buried Saul."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So then, let your hands be strong and {be valiant},<note>Literally "as sons of ability"</note> for your lord Saul <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">But Abner the son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Mahanaim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> forty years old when he became king over Israel and he reigned two years; however, the house of Judah {followed}<note>Literally "were after"</note> David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">The number of days that David was king over Hebron, over the house of Judah, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seven years and six months. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out, and they met at the pool of Gibeon. The one group sat on one side of the pool, and the other sat on the other side.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men come up and fight in our presence." And Joab said, "Let them come up."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So they came forward and passed by in number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then each seized his {opponent}<note>Literally "neighbor"</note> by the head and <transChange type="added">each thrust</transChange> his sword in the side of his opponent, so they fell together. So they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> called the name of that place Helkath Hazzurim,<note>Helkath Hazzurim possibly means "the slippery slope"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Gibeon.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then the battle {became increasingly fierce}<note>Literally "and it was/became strong/fierce until very"</note> on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> defeated before the servants of David. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the open field.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">So Asahel pursued<note>Hebrew "pursued after"</note> Abner, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left from going after Abner.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Abner turned around and said, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you this Asahel?" And he said, "Yes."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left; seize for yourself one of the young men, and take his belongings for yourself." But Asahel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to turn aside from him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">So Abner said to Asahel {once again},<note>Literally "and he again did again"</note> "{For your own sake},<note>Literally "for yourself"</note> turn aside {from following me}.<note>Literally "from after me"</note> Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I {show my face}<note>Literally "lift up my face"</note> to Joab your brother?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">But he refused to turn away, so Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of the spear, and the spear went out of his back. He fell there and he died {on the spot}.<note>Literally "in his place"</note> {Then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> all who came to the place where Asahel fell and died <transChange type="added">just</transChange> stood there. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">So Joab and Abishai pursued<note>Hebrew "pursued after"</note> Abner {when}<note>Literally "and"</note> the sun went down. And they came to the hill <transChange type="added">country</transChange> of Ammah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {before Giah}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">lies</transChange> on the face of Giah"</note> <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin rallied after Abner, and they became as one fighting group and stood on the top of a certain hill.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword devour forever? Do you not know that <transChange type="added">there</transChange> will be bitterness in the end? {How long}<note>Literally "And up to when"</note> will you not tell the people to turn {away from pursuing}<note>Literally "from after"</note> their brothers?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Joab said, "{As God lives},<note>Literally "The life of God"</note> for if you had not spoken, the people would surely have gone up in the morning, each <transChange type="added">one of them</transChange> {from following after}<note>Literally "from after"</note> his brother."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">After Joab returned from <transChange type="added">pursuing</transChange><note>Hebrew "after"</note> Abner, he gathered all the people; nineteen of the servants of David <transChange type="added">were</transChange> missing <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with Asahel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">The servants of David had killed some of the Benjaminites among the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty men had died.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which <transChange type="added">was at</transChange> Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night {<transChange type="added">arriving</transChange> in Hebron at first light}.<note>Literally "it became light for them in Hebron"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">The battle <transChange type="added">was</transChange> prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David {<transChange type="added">was</transChange> growing stronger and stronger}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> going and strong"</note> while the house of Saul {<transChange type="added">was</transChange> becoming weaker and weaker}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> going and weak"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> born to David in Hebron; his firstborn <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Amnon by Ahinoam {from Jezreel}<note>Literally "the Jezreelitess"</note>.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">His second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Kileab by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Absalom the son of Maacah, <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The fourth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shephatiah the son of Abital.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">The sixth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ithream by Eglah the wife of David. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> born to David in Hebron. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">As the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was <transChange type="added">continuing</transChange>, Abner was strengthening himself in the house of Saul.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Saul had had a concubine, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. Then <transChange type="added">Ish-Bosheth</transChange><note>Supported by some Hebrew and Greek manuscripts</note> said to Abner, "Why {did you have sex with}<note>Literally "have you gone into"</note> my father's concubine?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">{Abner became very angry}<note>Literally "And it became hot for Abner very"</note> at the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he said, "<transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I the head of a dog which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for Judah today? Do I not continue to show loyal love with the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends? I have not let you fall into the hands of David, yet you have {accused me of sin with this woman}<note>Literally "you have called me into account with the guilt of the woman"</note> today.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Thus {may God punish Abner},<note>Literally "may God do to Abner, and thus may he add to it"</note> {if I do not accomplish what Yahweh has sworn to David};<note>Literally "for as that Yahweh has sworn to David, so I will accomplish for him"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">specifically,</transChange> to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">Ish-Bosheth</transChange> was no longer able to {answer}<note>Literally "return a word to"</note> Abner {because he feared him}.<note>Literally "because of his fearing him"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Abner sent messengers to David {where he was},<note>Literally "under him"</note> saying, "To whom does the land <transChange type="added">belong</transChange>? {Make your covenant with me}!<note>Literally "cut your covenant with me"</note> Look, my hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you to bring all of Israel over to you!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">He<note>David</note> said, "Good. {I will make a covenant with you}.<note>Literally "I will cut a covenant with you"</note> I am asking only one thing from you: You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal the daughter of Saul when you come to see {me}."<note>Literally "my face"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, saying, "Give <transChange type="added">me</transChange> my wife Michal whom I betrothed to myself<note>Hebrew "me"</note> for a hundred foreskins of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So Ish-Bosheth sent and took her from <transChange type="added">her</transChange> husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish.<note>The Hebrew Masoretic text (Kethib) reads "Lush"; Qere reads "Laish"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">But her husband went with her, {weeping all along}<note>Literally "going and weeping"</note> after her as far as Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go <transChange type="added">and</transChange> return." So he returned. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">The word of Abner {came to}<note>Literally "was with"</note> the elders of Israel, saying, "{For quite some time}<note>Literally "Both yesterday and the day before"</note> you were seeking David as king over you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So then, bring it about, because Yahweh had said to David, "Through the hand of David my servant <transChange type="added">I am about</transChange> to save my people Israel from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Abner also spoke {privately to Benjamin}.<note>Literally "in the ears of Benjamin"</note> Abner also went {to speak to David}<note>Literally "to speak in the ears of David"</note> in Hebron, all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Then Abner came to David in Hebron and with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty men. David had prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And Abner said to David, "Let me get up and go and gather all of Israel to my lord the king, that they may {make a covenant}<note>Literally "cut a covenant"</note> with you so you can reign over all which your soul desires." So David dismissed Abner, and he left in peace.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">And look, the servants of David and Joab came from the raid, and they brought much plunder with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he<note>David</note> had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">When Joab and all the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him came, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he left in peace." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner came here to you? Why have you dismissed him that he {actually went away}?<note>Literally "and he went going"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you. He came to learn about your going out and coming <transChange type="added">in</transChange> and to know all which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Then Joab went out from David, and he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from Bor Hasirah, but David did not know <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate to speak with him in private. Then he struck him in the stomach there and he died, {for he had shed the blood of Asahel his brother}.<note>Literally "for the blood of Asahel his brother." See Num 35:16-25</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">When David heard this afterwards, he said: "I and my kingdom <transChange type="added">are</transChange> innocent {before Yahweh}<note>Literally "from with Yahweh"</note> forever <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the blood of Abner the son of Ner.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">May <transChange type="added">the blood</transChange> come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. {May the house of Joab never lack}<note>Literally "May <transChange type="added">there</transChange> not be cut off from the house of Joab"</note> <transChange type="added">one with</transChange> a bodily discharge or <transChange type="added">one with</transChange> leprosy or <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> grasps the distaff or <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> falls by the sword or <transChange type="added">one who is</transChange> lacking food." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">So Joab and Abishai, his brother, killed Abner because he had killed Asahel, their brother, at Gibeon in the battle.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">David said to Joab and to all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, "Tear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." Now King David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> following after the bier.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">And they buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33">The king sang a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner have died the death of a fool?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">Your hands <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not tied and your feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness." Then {all the people wept over him again}.<note>Literally "and all the people did again to weep over him"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="35">Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, "{May God punish me}<note>Literally "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add"</note> if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="36">All the people noticed, and it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good in their eyes, as everything that the king did <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good in the eyes of all the people.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="37">Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that {the king had not desired}<note>Literally "that it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not from the king"</note> to kill Abner the son of Ner.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="38">Then the king said to his servants, "Did you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="39">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> crueler than I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> wickedness." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, {his courage failed}<note>Literally "his hands hung limp"</note> and all of Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> horrified.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Two of the men, commanders of the raiding bands, were <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the son of Saul. The name of one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Baanah, and the name of the other <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Recab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Benjamin; also, Beeroth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> regarded <transChange type="added">as belonging</transChange> to Benjamin.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">(Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> crippled in the feet. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Mephibosheth.)</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">When the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Recab and Baanah, set out, they came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth while {he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> taking a noontime rest}.<note>Literally "he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying with the bed at noon"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">They came as far as the middle of the house <transChange type="added">as if</transChange> takers of wheat, and they struck him in the stomach. Then Recab and Baanah his brother escaped.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">When they had come <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the house, he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying on his couch {in his bedchamber},<note>Literally "in the room of his lying"</note> and they attacked him and killed him. Then they {beheaded him},<note>Literally "they took away his head"</note> and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> who redeemed my soul from all trouble,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">when the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who told me, "Look, Saul <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead," {thought that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> bringing good news},<note>Literally "and he was as <transChange type="added">one</transChange> bringing good news in his eyes"</note> I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> as my giving the news <transChange type="added">back</transChange> to him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">{How much more}<note>Literally "Also"</note> when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them, and they cut off their hands and their feet, and they hung <transChange type="added">them</transChange> at the pool at Hebron, but the head of Ish-Bosheth they took and buried in the grave of Abner at Hebron. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">So all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and they said, "Here we <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, {we are your flesh and blood}.<note>Literally "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your bone and your flesh"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">{For some time},<note>Literally "Both yesterday and three days before"</note> when Saul was king over us, {you were leading Israel in and out}.<note>Literally "you were going out and coming in, Israel." (So Kethib; Qere reads "bringing out and bringing in Israel")</note> Yahweh had said to you, 'You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David {made a covenant}<note>Literally "cut a covenant"</note> with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">He reigned over Judah at Hebron <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem <transChange type="added">for</transChange> thirty-three years. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, "You will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, 'David cannot come here.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">David had said, "On that day {when we attack the Jebusites},<note>Literally "in all of the striking down the Jebusites"</note> one must attack the lame and the blind, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who hate the soul of David, by <transChange type="added">means of</transChange> the water supply." For thus the blind and the lame would say, "He cannot come into the house."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from the Millo and {inward}.<note>Literally "to the house"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">David {continued growing stronger and stronger},<note>Literally "went going and great"</note> and Yahweh the God of hosts <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> cedar trees and {craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry},<note>Literally "skilled craftsmen of wood and skilled craftsmen of stone wall"</note> and they built a house for David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters <transChange type="added">were</transChange> born to him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon;</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold.<note>Thought by many to be the stronghold of Masada</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for {I will certainly give}<note>Literally "giving I will give"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines into your hand."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, "Yahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.<note>Baal Perazim may mean "the master of the bursting through"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">{Once again}<note>Literally "And they again did again"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, "You shall not go up. <transChange type="added">Rather,</transChange> go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">{And it shall be}<note>Literally "And it shall happen"</note> that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines from Geba {all the way}<note>Literally "as you go up"</note> to Gezer. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">David got up and went and all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> called the name, the name of Yahweh of hosts, {upon which the cherubim sit}.<note>Literally "the cherubim <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sitting on him"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">They loaded the ark of God on a new utility cart, and they carried it from the house of Abinadab, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the hill. Now Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> driving the new utility cart along.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So they brought it out from the house of Abinadab, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the hill with the ark of God, and Ahio <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going before the ark.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Now David and all the house of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of <transChange type="added">musical instruments made from</transChange> ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza reached out to the ark of God and took hold of <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, because the oxen had stumbled.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">{Then the anger of Yahweh was kindled}<note>Literally "Then the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion,<note>Legal regulations offered by Moses did not permit an Israelite to handle the ark of the covenant in this manner (compare Exod 25:12-16)</note> and he died there beside the ark of God.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">{David was angry}<note>Literally "It was hot for David"</note> because Yahweh had burst out against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza until this day.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">But David feared Yahweh on that day and said, "How can the ark of Yahweh come to me?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">However, David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to bring the ark of Yahweh to himself, to the city of David, so David caused it to turn <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So the ark of Yahweh remained <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">It <transChange type="added">was</transChange> told to King David, "Yahweh has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with jubilation.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">It happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when the carriers of the ark of Yahweh had marched six steps that he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Now David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dancing with all <transChange type="added">his</transChange> might before Yahweh, and David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> wearing<note>Hebrew "girded with"</note> a linen ephod.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So David and all the house of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouts of joyful acclaim and with the sound of the trumpet.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">It happened that when the ark of Yahweh came <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him in her heart. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">They brought the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place in the middle of the tent which David had pitched for it. Then David offered up burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the presence of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">When David had finished from the sacrificing of the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Then he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each: one ring-shaped piece of bread, one cake of dates, and one cake of raisins; and all the people went each to his house. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today {by uncovering himself}<note>Literally "who has uncovered himself"</note> before the eyes of the maids of his servants, {as the total exposure of a worthless one}."<note>Literally "as the total uncovering of one of the worthless"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So David said to Michal, "<transChange type="added">In the</transChange> presence of Yahweh who chose me {over}<note>Literally "more than"</note> your father and {over}<note>Literally "more than"</note> his household, to appoint me <transChange type="added">as</transChange> leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">I will demean myself again more than this, and I will be abased in my eyes, but with the maids whom you mentioned, with them I will be honored."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.)</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And the king said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, please, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> staying in the middle of the tent."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Nathan said to the king, "Go and do all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your heart, for Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">But it happened {that night},<note>Literally "in the night the that"</note> the word of Yahweh came<note>Hebrew "was"</note> to Nathan, saying,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh: "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from Egypt until this day; <transChange type="added">rather,</transChange> I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going about in a tent and in a tabernacle.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">In all of my going about among all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, 'Why did you not build me a cedar house?'" '</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So then, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture {from following}<note>Literally "from behind"</note> the sheep to be a leader over my people, over Israel,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">and I have been with you {everywhere you went}.<note>Literally "in all that you went"</note> I have cut off all of your enemies from in front of you, and I will make a great name for you, as the name of the great <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the earth.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">I will make a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> so that they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> can dwell {in their own place}.<note>Literally "under him"</note> They will not tremble <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and the children of wickedness will not afflict them again, as in the former days.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">{In the manner that}<note>Literally "And as far as" or "And from the day"</note> I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. And Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will build a house for you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">When your days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> full and you lie down with your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the {human beings}.<note>Literally "children of men"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">But my loyal love shall not depart from him as I took <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from Saul, whom I removed from before you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever." '" </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">According to all these words and according to all this vision, this Nathan spoke to David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I, my lord Yahweh, and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my house that you have brought me up to {this place}?<note>Literally "here"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Still, this <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {insignificant}<note>Literally "small"</note> in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this <transChange type="added">may be</transChange> the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">{What more can David say to you}?<note>Literally "And what can David still add to say"</note> You know your servant, my lord Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to let your servant know.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Therefore you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like your people, like Israel? <transChange type="added">Israel is</transChange> the one nation on earth whose God {led them},<note>Literally "went"; LXX reads "led"</note> <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you<note>David switches pronouns from the third person to the second person</note> the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> nations and their gods.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Your name shall be great forever, {and they will say},<note>Literally "saying"</note> 'Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">For you, O Yahweh of hosts, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant {has found courage}<note>Literally "has found his heart"</note> to pray this prayer to you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God, and your words <transChange type="added">are</transChange><note>Hebrew "will be"</note> true. You have promised this good to your servant.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">It happened afterwards <transChange type="added">that</transChange> David attacked <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the hands of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and {the third cord}<note>Literally "the filling of a cord"</note> to let live.<note>This method of selection must have been well known to the reader, but the exact procedure has been obscured over the millennia. It may be that one out of three lived through the process, only to become subservient</note> So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then David struck down Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his monument<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> at the Euphrates River.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">David captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand {foot soldiers}.<note>Literally "men of infantry"</note> David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but {from them}<note>Literally "from him"</note> he spared a hundred chariot horses.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand men of Aram.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">David placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, so Aram became servants of David, bringing tribute. Yahweh protected David everywhere he went. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">David took the small round gold shields which had {belonged}<note>Literally "been"</note> to the servants of Hadadezer, and he brought them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">From Betah and from Berothai, the towns of Hadadezer, King David took very many bronze <transChange type="added">items</transChange>. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Toi sent Joram his son to King David {to greet him}<note>Literally "to ask peace for himself"</note> and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; {for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi}.<note>Literally "for Hadadezer <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a man of wars with Toi"</note> {He brought with him}<note>Literally "In his hand were"</note> objects of silver and objects of gold and objects of bronze.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">King David dedicated them also to Yahweh <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued;</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">from Aram and from Moab and from the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">He put garrisons in Edom; all over Edom he put garrisons, and all of Edom became servants of David. Yahweh protected David wherever he went. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">David reigned over all of Israel, and he<note>Hebrew "David"</note> was administering justice and righteousness for all his people.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Joab the son of Zeruiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> secretary.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar <transChange type="added">were</transChange> priests and Seraiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> scribe.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Benaiah the son of Jehoiada <transChange type="added">was over</transChange> the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David <transChange type="added">were</transChange> priests. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then David said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> there still anyone who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> left for the house of Saul that I may show loyal love to him for the sake of Jonathan?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Now Saul's household had a servant whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ziba, so they summoned him to David, and the king asked him, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you Ziba?" He said, "{At your service}!"<note>Literally "Your servant"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then the king said, "But <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there still anyone of Saul's household that I may show the loyal love of God with him?" And Ziba said to the king, "There <transChange type="added">is</transChange> still a son of Jonathan <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> lame in the feet."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The king said to him, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he?" And Ziba said to the king, "{He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here}<note>Literally "Look, he"</note> in the house of Makir the son of Ammiel in Lo Debar."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So King David sent and brought him from the house of Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David. And he fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, "Mephibosheth," and he said, "{I am ready to serve you}."<note>Literally "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your servant"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then David said to him, "Don't be afraid, for {I will certainly show}<note>Literally "doing I will do" or "showing I will show"</note> loyal love to you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your father. And you shall always eat food at my table."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then he<note>Mephibosheth</note> did obeisance and said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your servant that you have paid attention to the dead dog like me?" </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">David summoned Ziba the servant of Saul and said to him, "All that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Saul's and all his household I have given to the son of your master.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">You shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants; you shall bring <transChange type="added">in the produce</transChange> and it shall be food for the son of your master that he may eat. But Mephibosheth the son of your master may always eat food at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.)</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my master the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eating at his table as one of the sons of the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Micah, and all of the dwelling of the household of Ziba <transChange type="added">became</transChange> servants for Mephibosheth.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">And Mephibosheth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living in Jerusalem, because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> continually eating at the table of the king, <transChange type="added">even though</transChange> he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lame in both of his feet. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{Afterwards the king of the Ammonites died},<note>Literally "And it happened afterwards <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the king of the sons of Ammon died"</note> and his son Hanun ruled in his place.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">David said, "I will show loyal love with Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed loyal love with me." So David sent to console him concerning his father, by the hand of his servants. And the servants of David came to the land of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">But the commanders of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> said to Hanun their master, "{In your opinion},<note>Literally "In your eyes"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> David honoring your father because he has sent condolences to you? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not in order to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it <transChange type="added">that</transChange> David sent his servants to you?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off half of their beards and cut their garments off in the middle up to their buttocks, then sent them away.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain in Jericho until your beards have grown, and then you can return." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">When the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> saw that they had become odious to David, the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and <transChange type="added">they also hired</transChange> the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">The {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> came out and {drew up a battle formation}<note>Literally "drew up battle"</note> at the entrance of the gate, but Aram-Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> alone in the open field.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">When Joab saw that {the battle was to be fought on two fronts},<note>Literally "the face of the battle <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against him in front and in the rear"</note> he chose from all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> members of the elite troops of Israel and {lined them up for battle}<note>Literally "arrayed"</note> to meet Aram.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who {arranged them in battle lines}<note>Literally "arrayed"</note> to meet the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then he said, "If Aram <transChange type="added">is</transChange> stronger than I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, you must become my deliverer; but if the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> good in his eyes.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Joab and all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him moved forward into the battle against Aram, and they fled from before him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">When the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> saw that Aram had fled, they fled from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from <transChange type="added">fighting</transChange> against the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and came to Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">When the Arameans saw that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> defeated before Israel, they gathered themselves together.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, {was at their head}.<note>Literally "before the face of them"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> told, so he gathered all Israel and crossed over the Jordan and came to Helam. Aram {arranged themselves in battle lines}<note>Literally "arrayed"</note> to meet David, and they fought with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> afraid to help the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> any longer. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{It came about in the spring},<note>Literally "And it happened at the turn of the year"</note> at the time {kings}<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "angels" or "messengers"</note> go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and besieged Rabbah, but David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> remaining in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">It happened {late one afternoon}<note>Literally "at the time of the evening"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house, and he saw a woman bathing on her<note>Hebrew "the"</note> roof. Now the woman {was very beautiful}.<note>Literally "very good of appearance"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">David sent and inquired about the woman, and <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">The woman became pregnant, and she sent and told David, and she said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> pregnant."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Uriah came to him, and David asked {how Joab and the army fared and how the war was going}.<note>Literally "as far as the peace of Joab, as far as the peace of the army, and as far as the peace of the battle"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." So Uriah went out from the king's house, and a gift from the king went out after him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">But Uriah slept <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his master and did not go down to his house.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">They told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house." David said to Uriah, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you not coming from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living in the booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord <transChange type="added">are</transChange> camping on the surface of the open field; and I, shall I go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? <transChange type="added">By</transChange> your life and the life of your soul, I surely will not do this thing."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">David said to Uriah, "Remain here {today},<note>Literally "also the day"</note> and tomorrow I will send you away." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence {so that he became drunk},<note>Literally "and he made him drunk"</note> and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">He had written in the letter, "Put Uriah in the front, in the face of the fiercest fighting, then draw back from behind him so that he may be struck down and die." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">{When Joab was besieging}<note>Literally "And it happened at the besieging of Joab"</note> the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew {there were valiant warriors}.<note>Literally "there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> men of ability"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">He instructed the messenger, saying, "As you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">if the anger of the king rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from <transChange type="added">atop</transChange> the wall?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth,<note>In putting words in David's mouth, Joab alludes to the story of Abimelech the son of Gideon from Judg 9:52-55. Though Gideon was also known as Jerub-ba'al, Joab conventionally substitutes bosheth (shame) for Ba'al to avoid naming the Canaanite deity</note> if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from <transChange type="added">atop</transChange> the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then the messenger left, and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him <transChange type="added">to say</transChange>.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">The messenger said to David, "Because {the men overpowered us},<note>Literally "the men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> superior over us"</note> the men came out to us <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the field, but {we forced them back}<note>Literally "we <transChange type="added">were</transChange> upon them"</note> to the entrance of the gate.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">The archers shot at your servant from <transChange type="added">atop</transChange> the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, '{Do not feel badly about this matter};<note>Literally "Do not let his matter be evil in your eyes"</note> {now one and then another}<note>Literally "for as this and as this"</note> the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.'" And he encouraged him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, she mourned over her husband.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">When the mourning <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done <transChange type="added">was</transChange> evil in the eyes of Yahweh. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">So Yahweh sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, "Two men were in a certain city; one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> rich and the other <transChange type="added">was</transChange> poor.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">The rich <transChange type="added">man</transChange> had very many flocks and herds,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">but the poor <transChange type="added">man</transChange> had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">And a visitor came to the rich man, but he {was reluctant}<note>Literally "felt sorry"</note> to take from his flocks or from his herds to prepare a meal for the traveler when he came to him. So he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then {the anger of David was kindled}<note>Literally "the nose of David became very hot"</note> against the man, and he said to Nathan, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> the man who has done this {deserves to die}!<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> a son of death"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then Nathan said to him, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if <transChange type="added">that had been too</transChange> little, I would have added to you {much more}.<note>Literally "as here and as here"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes?<note>Thus Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads "my eyes"</note> Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the {Ammonites}!<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to raise up evil against you from <transChange type="added">within</transChange> your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives {in broad daylight}.<note>Literally "before the eyes of this sun"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"<note>Literally "before the sun"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh!"<note>See Pss 32:1-5; 51:1-13</note> Nathan said to David, "Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But because you have {utterly scorned}<note>Literally "scorning you have scorned." The term "enemies of" in the MT is likely a textual corruption and is deleted here</note> Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you {will certainly die}."<note>Literally "dying will die" (compare Gen 2:17)</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">David pleaded <transChange type="added">with</transChange> God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing, and he did not eat <transChange type="added">any</transChange> food with them.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David <transChange type="added">were</transChange> afraid to tell him that the child <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, for they said, "Look, when the child <transChange type="added">was</transChange> alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead'? He may do <transChange type="added">something</transChange> evil."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">When David saw that his servants <transChange type="added">were</transChange> whispering together, he realized that the child <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead. Then David said to his servants, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> the child dead?" And they said, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">David stood up from the ground and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothing. Then he went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh and worshiped, and he went to his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> house. He asked, so they served him food, and he ate.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then his servants said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this thing that you have done? While the child <transChange type="added">was</transChange> alive, you fasted and wept; <transChange type="added">now</transChange> that the child has died, you get up and eat food!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">He said, "When the child <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">But now he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead. Why <transChange type="added">should I be</transChange> fasting? <transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I able to return him again? I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to him, but he cannot return to me."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called<note>So Kethib; Qere reads "she called"</note> him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">He sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah<note>Jedidiah means "beloved of Yahweh"</note> because of Yahweh. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">And Joab fought against Rabbah of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and he captured {the royal city}.<note>Literally "city of the kingship"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a talent of gold, and there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a precious stone <transChange type="added">in it</transChange> and it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city {in great abundance}.<note>Literally "very many"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">He also brought out the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">It happened afterwards that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Tamar, and Amnon the son of David fell in love with her.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And Amnon {was so frustrated that he felt ill}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> distressed to the point of sickness"</note> because of Tamar his sister, because she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a virgin, and it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> too difficult in Amnon's eyes to do anything with her.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now Amnon had a friend whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David. (Now Jonadab <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a very crafty man.)</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">And he said to him, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you so sullen {every morning},<note>Literally "in the morning, in the morning"</note> O son of the king? Will you not tell me?" And Amnon said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and appear ill. If your father comes to see you, you shall say to him, 'Please let Tamar my sister come and give me food to eat, and let her prepare the food before my eyes, in order that I may see it and eat from her hand.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sister come, and let her bake two cakes before my eyes that I may eat from her hand."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare food for him."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother. Now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying down, and she took the dough and kneaded <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and made cakes before his eyes, and she baked the cakes.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then she took the pan and poured it out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Let all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> men go out from me." So all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> men went out from him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the private room that I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in<note>Hebrew "to"</note> the private room.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">When she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then Tamar said to him, "No, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to listen to her voice. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> stronger than she, and he forced her and lay with her. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then Amnon hated her {very deeply},<note>Literally "with a great hatred"</note> for the hatred with which he hated her <transChange type="added">was</transChange> greater than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> love with which he had loved her. So Amnon said to her, "Get up <transChange type="added">and</transChange> go."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">She said to him, "No, because this evil in sending me away <transChange type="added">is</transChange> greater than the other you have done to me." But he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to listen to her.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then he called his young man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> serving him and said, "Please send this woman from me to the outside, and bolt the door behind her!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Now there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a long-sleeved robe on her, for so they clothed the daughters of the king who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> virgins, in robes. His servant put her outside, and he bolted the door behind her.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on her. She put her hand on her head, and {she went away, crying out as she went}.<note>Literally "she went, going and crying aloud"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Absalom her brother said to her, "<transChange type="added">Was</transChange> Amnon your brother with you? But now, my sister, be quiet; he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your brother. {Do not take this matter to heart}."<note>Literally "Do not place/set your heart to this matter"</note> So Tamar remained a desolate woman in the house of Absalom her brother. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Now King David heard all these things, and {he became very angry}.<note>Literally "it became very hot for him"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Absalom did not speak with Amnon {either bad or good},<note>Literally "as far as from bad and up to good"</note> for Absalom hated Amnon {over the matter when}<note>Literally "because of the thing that"</note> he raped Tamar his sister.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">{About two full years later},<note>Literally "And it happened at two years <transChange type="added">of</transChange> days"</note> Absalom's shearers were in Baal Hazor, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near Ephraim, and Absalom summoned all the sons of the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then Absalom went to the king and said, "Look, here <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your servant's shearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">The king said to Absalom, "No my son, not all of us shall go, so that we not be a burden to you." And he urged him, but he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to go, but he blessed him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">So Absalom said, "But <transChange type="added">will you</transChange> not let Amnon my brother go with us?" And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">But Absalom pressed him, so he sent Amnon with him and all of the sons of the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Please watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {tipsy}<note>Literally "good"</note> with wine, then I shall say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' and you shall kill him! Don't be afraid. <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be {valiant!}<note>Literally "as sons of ability"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">So Absalom's servants did to Amnon just as Absalom commanded, and all the sons of the king got up, and each mounted his mule and fled. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">{While they were on the way},<note>Literally "And it happened they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the way"</note> the message came to David, "Absalom has killed all the sons of the king, and not one of them <transChange type="added">was</transChange> left."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Then the king rose and tore his garments, and he lay on the ground, and all his servants standing by <transChange type="added">were</transChange> tearing their garments.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, "My lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dead, because only Amnon <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead. {Absalom was talking about it},<note>Literally "For it was on the mouth of Absalom"</note> as it was being determined from the day he<note>Amnon</note> raped Tamar his sister.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33">So then, let not my lord the king set his heart on this matter, thinking, 'All the sons of the king <transChange type="added">are</transChange> dead,' for only Amnon alone <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">So Absalom fled, and the young man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> keeping watch lifted up his eyes and saw, and there were many people coming from the road behind him from the side of the mountain.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="35">Jonadab said to the king, "Look, the sons of the king have come. According to the word of your servant, so it has come about."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="36">When he finished speaking, look, the sons of the king came and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also, the king and all his servants wept a very great weeping.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="37">Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, the king of Geshur. <transChange type="added">David</transChange> mourned over his son {day after day}.<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="38">But Absalom had fled and went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Geshur, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there three years.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="39">King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was consoled that Amnon had died. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Joab the son of Zeruiah realized that the mind of the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on Absalom.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So Joab sent to Tekoa and took from there a wise woman, and he said to her, "Please pretend to mourn and put on garments of mourning. You should not anoint yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> oil, and you must act like this woman who has been mourning over the dead for {a long time}.<note>Literally "many days"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word." <transChange type="added">Thus</transChange> Joab put the words in her mouth. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, "Help me, O king!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then the king asked her, "{What do you want}?"<note>Literally "What is for you"</note> And she said, "Truly I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a widow, and my husband <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dead.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Your servant had two sons, and they both fought in the open field, and there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> no one {to part them}.<note>Literally "to save between them"</note> One struck the other and killed him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">And look, all of the family has risen up against your servant, and they said, 'Give up the one who struck his brother, that we may kill him in exchange for the life of his brother whom he murdered. We will also wipe out the heir,' and so they would put out my embers which remain, by not preserving for my husband a name and a remnant on the face of the earth." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">The Tekoite woman said to the king, "On me, my lord the king, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king on<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his throne <transChange type="added">is</transChange> innocent."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">The king said, "<transChange type="added">Whoever</transChange> has spoken to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you again."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then she said, "Please may the king remember Yahweh your God, {to prevent the increase of blood avengers who kill},<note>Literally "from making numerous the avenger of blood to kill"</note> <transChange type="added">so that they</transChange> not wipe out my son." He said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> surely not one hair shall fall from your son to the ground."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">The woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">The woman said, "But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">For {we must certainly die},<note>Literally "dying we must die"</note> and <transChange type="added">we are</transChange> as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, because the people made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king, perhaps the king will grant<note>Hebrew "do/make"</note> the request of his servant.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man <transChange type="added">who seeks</transChange> to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Your servant also thought, 'May the word of my lord the king {bring rest},<note>Literally "become a rest"</note> for as an angel of God, so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my lord the king, {to sense what is good and what is bad}.'<note>Literally "to hear the good and the bad"</note> May Yahweh your God be with you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">The king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not withhold from me a thing which I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to ask you." The woman said, "Please let my lord the king speak."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">The king asked, "<transChange type="added">Was</transChange> the hand of Joab with you in all of this?" The woman answered and said, "{As your soul lives},<note>Literally "The life of your soul"</note> my lord the king, surely <transChange type="added">one cannot</transChange> go to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken. Yes, your servant Joab himself commanded me, and he put all of these words in the mouth of your servant.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">In order {to change the situation},<note>Literally "to turn the face of the thing"</note> your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord <transChange type="added">has</transChange> wisdom, as the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the earth."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then the king said to Joab, "Look, please, I will grant this thing. Go and bring back the young man Absalom."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Joab fell with his face to the ground and did obeisance. And he blessed the king, and he<note>Hebrew "Joab"</note> said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> that the king has granted the request of his servant." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">The king said, "Let him go over to his house, and he may not see my face." So Absalom went over to his house, and did not see the face of the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">When he shaved his head, it would happen {every year},<note>Literally "from the end of days for the days"</note> which he did because <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh the hair of his head: two hundred shekels {by the king's weight}.<note>Literally "by the stone of the king"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Three sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> born to Absalom and one daughter, whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Tamar. She <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a woman beautiful of appearance.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Absalom lived in Jerusalem {two full years},<note>Literally "two years of days"</note> but he did not see the face of the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">So Absalom sent for Joab, <transChange type="added">in order that he</transChange> send him to the king, but he was not willing to go to him. He sent again a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, but he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to go.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">So he said to his servants, "Look at the tract of land of Joab {next to mine},<note>Literally "toward my hand"</note> for he has barley plants there. Go, set it ablaze with fire." So the servants of Absalom set the tract of land ablaze with fire.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Then Joab got up and went to Absalom, to the house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my tract of land ablaze with fire?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I have sent to you, saying, 'Come here that I may send you to the king to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I <transChange type="added">were</transChange> still there." ' So then, let me see the face of the king; if there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> guilt in me, then let him kill me."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33">So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Absalom used to rise early in the morning, and he stood {beside}<note>Literally "on hand of"</note> the road <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the gate; {anyone}<note>Literally "every man"</note> who had a legal dispute to bring to the king for judgment Absalom would call to him and say, "{Where are you from?}"<note>Literally "Where from this city are you?"</note> And he would say, "Your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from one of the tribes of Israel."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then Absalom would say, "{Oh, that someone would}<note>Literally "Who will ...?"</note> appoint me as judge in the land, that {anyone}<note>Literally "every man"</note> might come to me who had a legal dispute or a case, and I would give him justice."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">It happened whenever anyone drew near to do obeisance to him, that he would stretch his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Absalom did like this to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the people of Israel. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">It happened at the end of four<note>So LXX, followed by Syriac and Vulgate; MT has "forty"</note> years <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">for your servant made a vow while I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> staying in Geshur in Aram, saying, '{If Yahweh will indeed let me return}<note>Literally (following Qere) "If returning Yahweh will return me"</note> to Jerusalem, then I will worship Yahweh.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy {grew in strength},<note>Literally "became strong"</note> and the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> going and {increasing}<note>Literally "many"</note> with Absalom. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then the messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then David said to all his servants who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in Jerusalem, "Get up and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom! Hurry to go, otherwise he will come quickly and overtake us! And he will bring disaster on us and evil! He will attack the city with the edge of the sword!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then the servants of the king said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king chooses, {your servants are ready to act}!"<note>Literally "here are your servants"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">The king went out with<note>Hebrew "and"</note> all his household {following him},<note>Literally "at his feet"</note> but the king left behind ten concubines to look after the house.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">So the king went out with<note>Hebrew "and"</note> all the people {following him},<note>Literally "at his feet"</note> and they stopped {at the last house}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">at</transChange> the house of the distance"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">All his servants <transChange type="added">were</transChange> passing {by him}:<note>Literally "on his hand"</note> all of the Kerethites and all of the Pelethites and all of the Gittites--six hundred men {who had followed him}<note>Literally "who had come at his feet"</note> from Gath--passing {before the king}.<note>Literally "on the face of the king"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you also coming with us? Return and stay with the king, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a foreigner; moreover, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> an exile. {You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> far from your place}.<note>Literally "You as far as your place"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Yesterday when you came and {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to where I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going; return and let your brothers return. <transChange type="added">May</transChange> loyal love and faithfulness <transChange type="added">be</transChange> with you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">But Ittai answered the king and said, "{As Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> and {my lord the king lives},<note>Literally "the life of my lord the king"</note> surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." So Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all of the little children who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">All of the land <transChange type="added">was</transChange> weeping <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a loud voice as all the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> passing by and the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> crossing through the Wadi Kidron, and all the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> passing {on the road to the wilderness}.<note>Literally "on the face of the road with the wilderness"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Suddenly Zadok <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there, and all of the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people passed out of the city.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">The king said to Zadok, "Let the ark of God return to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yawheh, he will let me return and let me see him in his dwelling place.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">But if he says, 'I take no pleasure in you,' then {I am ready}.<note>Literally "here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>"</note> Let him do to me that which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in his eyes.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Then the king said to Zadok the priest, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you a seer? Return to the city in peace, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">See, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> waiting at the fords of the wilderness until a word comes from you all to inform me."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and they remained there. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Now David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going up on the Ascent of the Olives, {weeping as he went},<note>Literally "going up and weeping"</note> with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him each covered their head {and wept as they went}.<note>Literally "going up and weeping"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Now David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> told, "Ahithophel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">It happened that as David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming up to the summit where he used to worship God, suddenly Hushai the Arkite <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there to meet him. His coat <transChange type="added">was</transChange> torn and dirt <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on his head.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">but if you want to return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your servant, O king. I used to be a servant of your father, but from then and now I <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> your servant,' then you can frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel for me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="35"><transChange type="added">Will</transChange> not Zadok and Abiathar the priests <transChange type="added">be</transChange> with you there? It shall be that all the words you hear from the house of the king you shall tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="36">Look, there with them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their two sons, Ahimaaz of Zadok and Jonathan of Abiathar. You shall send to me {by means of them}<note>Literally "by their hand"</note> all the words that you hear."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="37">So Hushai the friend of David came to the city <transChange type="added">as</transChange> Absalom was entering Jerusalem. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now David passed a little from beyond the summit, and suddenly Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there to meet him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a pair of saddled donkeys; on them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">The king said to Ziba, "{What do you want to accomplish by bringing these}?"<note>Literally "What are these to you?"</note> And Ziba said, "The donkeys <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for the king's household to ride <transChange type="added">on</transChange>; the bread and the summer fruit <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for the young men to eat, and the wine <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for the faint in the wilderness to drink.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then the king said, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the son of your lord?" And Ziba said to the king, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> living in Jerusalem for he said, 'Today the house of Israel shall return the kingdom of my father to me.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The king said to Ziba, "Look, all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Mephibosheth's is yours." Ziba said, "I hereby do obeisance; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">King David came up to Bahurim and suddenly a man from there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming out from the family of the house of Saul, and his name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shimei the son of Gera. {He was cursing as he came out}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">He was</transChange> coming out, coming out and cursing"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David and at all the people and at all the mighty warriors on his right and on his left.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Shimei said while cursing him, "Go out, go out, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> {man of bloodshed},<note>Literally "man of bloods"</note> <transChange type="added">you</transChange> {man of wickedness}.<note>Literally "and man of the wickedness"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the household of Saul {whom you have supplanted as king},<note>Literally "who you have reigned in place of him"</note> and Yahweh has given the kingship into the hand of Absalom your son. Look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in disaster for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a man of blood."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">The king said, "{What do we have in common},<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you"</note> sons of Zeruiah? If<note>Hebrew "Because"</note> he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Look, my son who came out of my loins<note>Hebrew "intestines"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> seeking my life. Now {as far as}<note>Literally "and even that now"</note> <transChange type="added">this</transChange> Benjaminite, leave him alone and let him curse, for Yahweh has spoken to him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Perhaps Yahweh will look {in my eye}<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "at my guilt"</note> and repay good for me in place of his curse this day.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David and his men went on the road, with Shimei going on the side of the hill beside him, {cursing as he went}.<note>Literally "going and cursing"</note> He threw stones beside him and threw<note>Hebrew "flung"</note> dust in the air.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">When the king and all of the people who were with him arrived, he was weary, so he recovered there. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">When Hushai the Arkite the friend of David came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "<transChange type="added">Long</transChange> live the king, <transChange type="added">long</transChange> live the king!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Absalom said to Hushai, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then Hushai said to Absalom, "No, rather, whom Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, to him<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has "no"</note> I will be, and with him I will remain.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">{Furthermore},<note>Literally "And the second <transChange type="added">thing</transChange>"</note> for whom have I served? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not in the presence of his son that I have served before your father? {So shall I serve you}!"<note>Literally "So shall I be in your presence"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go to the concubines of your father whom he left behind to watch over the house, then all of Israel will hear that you made yourself odious to your father, and {all of your followers will be motivated}!"<note>Literally "the hands of all who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you will be strengthened"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he went <transChange type="added">in</transChange> to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days <transChange type="added">was</transChange> regarded as when a man<note>Qere reads "a man inquired"; Kethib omits "a man"</note> inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel <transChange type="added">was esteemed</transChange> both by David and by Absalom. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David {tonight}.<note>Literally "the night"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">I will come upon him while he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> weary and {weak}.<note>Literally "slack of hands"</note> I will startle him, and all of the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king <transChange type="added">while</transChange> he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alone.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then I will return all the people to you; when all have returned, the man whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking <transChange type="added">will be dead</transChange>,<note>According to the MT; the LXX has "and I will return all the people to you the way a bride returns to her husband, except the life of the one man whom you are seeking"</note> but all the people will be safe."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The word <transChange type="added">was</transChange> right in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Absalom said, "Please call also for Hushai the Arkite, and let us hear {what he has to say}<note>Literally "what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in his mouth"</note> also."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Hushai came to Absalom, who said to him, "Shall we do according to this word <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Ahithophel has spoken? If not, then you tell <transChange type="added">us</transChange>."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel gave <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not good {at this time}."<note>Literally "at this occurrence"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> mighty warriors and they {are enraged}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">are</transChange> bitter of soul"</note> as a bear robbed of <transChange type="added">her</transChange> offspring in the field. Your father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Now he has hidden himself in one of the caves or in one of the places. At the moment he falls on them<note>I.e., Absalom's troops</note> the first time, {whoever hears}<note>Literally "and the one who hears hears"</note> the report will say, 'There has been a defeat among the people who follow after Absalom.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">And he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> also a {valiant warrior},<note>Literally "son of ability"</note> whose heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the heart of the lion. He<note>i.e., one of Absalom's troops</note> will {certainly melt}<note>Literally "melting he will melt"</note> with fear, for all Israel knows that your father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a mighty warrior and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {valiant warriors}.<note>Literally "son of ability"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">I give the advice that all of Israel from Dan to Beersheba should be completely gathered to you, as the sand which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the seashore for abundance, with {you personally}<note>Literally "your face"</note> going into the battle.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then we will come to him in one of the places where he may be found, and we shall come upon him as the dew falls on the ground. He and all the men who are with him will not survive, <transChange type="added">not</transChange> even one!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">Even</transChange> if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not even a pebble to be found."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom). </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "{Thus and so}<note>Literally "so this and so this"</note> Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, but {thus and so}<note>Literally "so this and so this"</note> I have advised.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him be swallowed up.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz <transChange type="added">were</transChange> staying at En Rogel, so a servant girl used to go and tell them, then they would go and tell King David, for they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not able to be seen coming to the city.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">But a young man saw them and told Absalom, so both of them went quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim. Now he had a well in his courtyard, so they went down there.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">When the servants of Absalom came to the woman <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And she said to them, "They crossed over the brook of water." So they searched but could not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">After they left, they came up from the well and went and told King David. They said to David, "Set out and cross over the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has advised against you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">So David and all the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him set out, and they crossed over the Jordan until morning light until {there was no one}<note>Literally "until one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not missing"</note> missing who had not crossed over the Jordan.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">When Ahithophel saw that his advice <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order},<note>Literally "And he commanded to his household"</note> he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Now David had come to Mahanaim, and Absalom had crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Absalom had appointed Amasa in place of Joab over the army. Now Amasa <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the son of a man whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ithra the Israelite, {who had married}<note>Literally "who went to"</note> Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Israel and Absalom camped <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the land of Gilead.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him to eat. For they had thought, "The troops <transChange type="added">are</transChange> hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then David mustered the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and he appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">David sent forth a third of the troops {under the command of Joab},<note>Literally "in the hand of Joab"</note> and a third {under the command of Abishai},<note>Literally "in the hand of Abishai"</note> the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the remaining third {under the command of Ittai}<note>Literally "in the hand of Ittai"</note> the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, "I, even I, {will certainly go out}<note>Literally "going out I will go out"</note> with you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then the troops said, "You will not go out, for {if we must flee},<note>Literally "fleeing we must flee"</note> then {they will not care about us};<note>Literally "they will not set heart toward us"</note> even if half of us die, {they will not care about us},<note>Literally "they will not set heart toward us"</note> but now, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like ten thousand of us. And so then, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> better for us that you be in the city to help."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The king said to them, "I will do what seems good in your eyes." So the king stood at the side of the gate <transChange type="added">while</transChange> all of the troops went out by hundreds and by thousands.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, "With respect to the young man Absalom, <transChange type="added">deal</transChange> gently for me." And all the troops heard when the king ordered all of the commanders concerning the matter of Absalom. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">The army went out to the field to meet Israel, and the battle was <transChange type="added">fought</transChange> in the forest of Ephraim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">The army of Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and {the forest devoured more among the army than}<note>Literally "the forest made numerous to eat among the army more than"</note> the sword <transChange type="added">did</transChange> on that day.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Absalom was found in the presence of the servants of David <transChange type="added">as he was</transChange> riding on the mule. The mule went under the thicket of the great oak tree, and his head <transChange type="added">was</transChange> caught in the tree. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> left hanging between heaven and earth, and the mule which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> under him went on.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">When a certain man saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, he told Joab, and he said, "Look, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak tree!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then Joab said to the man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> telling him, "Look, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? {I would have gladly given you}<note>Literally "And upon me to give to you"</note> ten pieces of silver and a leather belt."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">The man said to Joab, "{Even if I felt the weight}<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not weighing out on my palms"</note> of a thousand pieces of silver in my palms, I would not have sent my hand against the son of the king, for in our ears the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Whoever you may be, protect the young man Absalom.'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">If I had dealt treacherously against his life, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> not any matter hidden from the king, {you would have presented yourself aloof}."<note>Literally "you would have presented yourself from before"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still alive in the oak tree.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then ten of the young men who bore the weapons of Joab surrounded <transChange type="added">him</transChange> and struck and killed Absalom.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Joab blew on the trumpet and the troops returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab kept back the troops.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">They took Absalom and they threw him into the large pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones over him. Then all of Israel fled, each to his tent. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">(Now Absalom had taken and set up for himself in his lifetime a stone pillar that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the valley of the king, because he said, "I have no son in order to remember my name," and he called the stone pillar by his name. It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> called the monument of Absalom until this day).</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the good news to the king that Yahweh has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Joab said to him, "You <transChange type="added">will</transChange> not <transChange type="added">be</transChange> a man {bringing}<note>Literally "for upon"</note> good news this day! You may bring good news on another day, but today you will not be bringing good news because the king's son is dead."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen"; then the Cushite bowed down to Joab and ran <transChange type="added">off</transChange>.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again said to Joab, "{Come what may},<note>Literally "And let it happen what"</note> please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab asked, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you wanting to run, my son, when for you there is no {messenger's reward}?"<note>Literally "and for you there is no good news finding"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">"{Come what may},<note>Literally "And let it happen what"</note> I want to run." He said to him, "Run," so Ahimaaz ran on the road on the plain, and he passed the Cushite. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Now David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting between the two gates, and the sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and he lifted up his eyes and watched, and look, a man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> running by himself.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">The sentry called and told the king, and the king said, "If he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alone, good news is in his mouth." {He kept coming closer}.<note>Literally "And he came, coming and near"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Then the sentinel saw another man running, so the sentinel called to the gatekeeper and said, "Look, a man running alone." The king said, "This one also <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bringing good news."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">The sentinel said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> seeing <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the running of the first <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zakok." The king said, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a good man; he will come, for good news."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Then Ahimaaz called and said to the king, "Peace." He bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and he said, "May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delivered the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">The king said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it peace for the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz said, "I saw the great commotion when Joab the servant of the king sent your servant, but I do not know what <transChange type="added">it was all about</transChange>."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Then the king said, "Turn aside, take your place here," so he turned aside and waited.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Suddenly the Cushite arrived and said, "May my lord the king receive the good news, for Yahweh has vindicated you today from the power of all who stood up against you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">The king said to the Cushite, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you {to harm you}<note>Literally "for evil"</note> be like the young man!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33"><note>2 Samuel 18:33-19:43 in the English Bible is 19:1-44 in the Hebrew Bible</note> The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only}<note>Literally "Who would grant my dying in place of you"</note> I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">And it was told to Joab that the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> weeping and he mourned over Absalom,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">so the victory turned to mourning on that day for all the army, because they had heard that day, "The king is grieving over his son."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">The army {came secretly}<note>Literally "stole secretly to come"</note> into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Joab came to the king's house and said, "Today you have humiliated the faces of all of your servants who have saved your life this day, and the life of your sons and your daughters, the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. Indeed, you have made clear this day that you have no <transChange type="added">regard for your</transChange> commanders or officers, for I have realized today that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Absalom alive, and all of us were dead, then <transChange type="added">that would</transChange> have been right in your eyes!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So then, get up and go out and {speak kindly to your servants},<note>Literally "speak to the heart of your servants"</note> for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, no man will lodge this night with you, and this disaster <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> greater for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your childhood until now!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So the king got up and he sat in the gate, and they told all the army, "Look, the king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> sitting in the gate." Then all the army came before the king; <transChange type="added">whereas</transChange> all of Israel had fled, each to his tent. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then it happened that all the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> disputing among all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Now Absalom whom we anointed <transChange type="added">as king</transChange> over us has died in the battle; so then, why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you taking no action to restore the king?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah: 'Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you last to bring back the king to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king in his house.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">My brothers, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my bones and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">To Amasa you shall say: '<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you not my bones and my flesh? {May God punish me}<note>Literally "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add"</note> if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to the king, "Return, you and all your servants." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then the king returned and he came to the Jordan; Judah had come to Gilgal to come to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Shimei the son of Gera, the son of the Benjaminite, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Bahurim quickly came down with the men of Judah to meet King David,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">and a thousand men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him from Benjamin. Too, Ziba the servant of the household of Saul and fifteen of his sons and twenty of his servants <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">{The crossing took place}<note>Literally "And the ford crossed"</note> to bring the household of the king over and to do good in his eyes. Then Shimei the son of Gera fell before the king when he crossed over the Jordan,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">For your servant knows that I have sinned; look, I have come this day <transChange type="added">as the first</transChange> of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah responded and said, "Because of this, should not Shimei be put to death, for he cursed the anointed one of Yahweh?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then David said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? <transChange type="added">Should</transChange> anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> king over Israel?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Then the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die," and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> the king swore to him. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Now, Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet nor trimmed his moustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in peace.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">It happened that when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Then he said, "My lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant had said, 'Let me saddle the donkey that I may ride on her and go with the king,' for your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> lame.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">But he slandered against your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the angel of God; {do as you see fit.}."<note>Literally "do the good in your eyes"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">For there <transChange type="added">was no one</transChange> in all the house of my father {who were not doomed to death}<note>Literally "except men of death"</note> before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. Do I have any righteousness any longer except to cry out to the king?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Then the king said to him, "Why should you speak any more <transChange type="added">about</transChange> the matter? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Then Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him take the whole <transChange type="added">thing</transChange>, since my lord the king has come {safely}<note>Literally "in peace"</note> to his house." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Now Barzillai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very old, {eighty years old}.<note>Literally "a son of eighty years"</note> Now he had provided the king <transChange type="added">with food</transChange> while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> staying at Mahanaim, for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a very wealthy man.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33">The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over with me, and I will provide for you <transChange type="added">to dwell</transChange> with me in Jerusalem."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">Then Barzillai said to the king, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="35">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="36">Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="37">Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city in the tomb of my father and my mother. Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your servant Kimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him that which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in your eyes."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="38">The king said, "Let Kimham go over with me, and I will do for him the good in your eyes, and all that you desire of me I will do for you." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="39">Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="40">The king went over to Gilgal, and Kimham went over with him. All the people of Judah went over with the king, and half of the people of Israel too.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="41">Suddenly, all the men of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> coming to the king. They said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="42">Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my close relative! Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you this angry over this matter? {Have we by any means eaten <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from the king? Did we take by any means anything that was not ours}?"<note>Literally "By any means did we eat from the king or by any means was it dragged away for us?"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="43">Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have {ten times as much}<note>Literally "ten hands"</note> in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt {by not giving me first chance}<note>Literally "and my word <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not the first"</note> to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> fiercer than the word of the men of Israel. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, "There is no share for us in David, and there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Then all the men of Israel went up from <transChange type="added">following</transChange> after David, <transChange type="added">following instead</transChange> after Sheba the son of Bicri, but the men of Judah stuck to their king from the Jordan up to Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">David went up to his house in Jerusalem, then the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and he put them {under confinement}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">a</transChange> house of guard"</note> However, he provided for them, but {he did not sleep with them}.<note>Literally "he did not come into them"</note> So they were confined until the day of their death, like a lifetime of widowhood. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then the king said to Amasa, "Summon for me the men of Judah <transChange type="added">within</transChange> three days, {and be here yourself}."<note>Literally "and you stand here"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he tarried more than the appointed time which he had set for him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bicri will do us more harm than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue after him, lest he find fortified cities for himself and escape from us."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then the men of Joab, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors went out after him; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> near the big rock that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab {was dressed in his military clothing},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> dressed his garment his clothing"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a utility belt on him and a sword strapped to his waist in its scabbard. Now he went out, and it fell out.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then Joab said to Amasa, "Is it peace, O you my brother?" Then the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa <transChange type="added">as if</transChange> to kiss him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Now Amasa was not on his guard against the sword that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Joab's hand, and he struck him with it into the stomach, and his entrails poured out to the ground. He did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bicri.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">A young man stood over him, from the young men of Joab, and he said, "Whoever takes delight in Joab and whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for David, <transChange type="added">follow</transChange> after Joab."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Now Amasa <transChange type="added">was</transChange> wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood <transChange type="added">there</transChange>, he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">After he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by after Joab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">(He<note>i.e., "Sheba"</note> had passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maacah; now all of the Berites had been treated badly, so they also followed after him.)</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city, and they stood against the ramparts. And all the army who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with Joab <transChange type="added">were</transChange> battering to cause the wall to fall.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then a wise woman from the city called out, "Listen, listen! Please speak to Joab <transChange type="added">to</transChange> come near here so that I may speak to you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then he came near to her, and the woman asked, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you Joab?" And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." He said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> listening."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then she said, "In former times, {they would always say},<note>Literally "speaking they would speak"</note> 'By all means, let them inquire in Abel,' and so they settled things.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> one of the faithful representatives of Israel. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow the inheritance of Yahweh?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Then Joab answered and said, "Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow or I should destroy.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">That is not the matter. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Sheba the son Bicri, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give only him to us, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Look, his head <transChange type="added">is</transChange> being thrown down to you over the wall."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">The woman went to all of the people with her wise plan, so they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bicri and threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Joab. Then he blew the horn and dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Now Joab <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over all the army of Israel and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the Carites and over the Pelethites.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Adoram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the forced labor, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the recorder.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Shiya <transChange type="added">was</transChange> secretary, and Zadok and Abiathar <transChange type="added">were</transChange> priests.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Also Ira the Jairite <transChange type="added">was</transChange> priest for David. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">There <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a famine in the days of David <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three years, year after year. And David {inquired of Yahweh},<note>Literally "sought the face of Yahweh"</note> and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not from the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> from the remainder of the Amorites. Now the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had sworn to them,<note>The treaty between Israel and the Gibeonites is found in Josh 9</note> but Saul tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and Judah.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">So David asked the Gibeonites, "What can I do for you, and with what can I make amends that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then the Gibeonites said to him, "{It is not a matter for us of}<note>Literally "There is not for me (Qere 'us')"</note> silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel." He asked, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you saying <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I should do for you all?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then they said to the king, "The man who consumed us and who plotted against us <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> we were destroyed from existing in all of the territory of Israel,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">let seven men from his sons be given over to us, and we will execute them before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of Yahweh." Then the king said, "I will give them over."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the sworn oath of Yahweh which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So the king took two of the sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, namely Armoni and Mephibosheth, and five of the sons of Michal the daughter of Saul whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> told about what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines hung them {when}<note>Literally "on the day"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They did all that the king had commanded, and afterward God was entreated for the land. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">There <transChange type="added">was</transChange> war again for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and David grew weary.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Now Yishbi in Nob, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> among the descendents of Raphah<note>The descendants of Raphah (i.e., the Rephaim) <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thought to be giants</note> (now the weight of his spearhead <transChange type="added">was</transChange> three hundredweight of bronze, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> newly armed), said that he would kill David.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">It happened afterward that there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> again battle at Gob with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> among the descendants of the Raphah. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">There <transChange type="added">was</transChange> again a battle with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath<note>In view of the account of David and Goliath in 1 Sam 17, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> likely that Elhanan actually killed the brother of Goliath, Lahmi, in 1 Chr 20:5</note> the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the beam of a weaver. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Once again there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> battle at Gath, and there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {a man of great size}.<note>Literally "a man of measurement"</note> The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> six and six, twenty-four in number. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> also born to the Raphah.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">He taunted Israel but Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, killed him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">These four <transChange type="added">were</transChange> born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song,<note>This same song is recorded in Psa 18, with minor differences</note> on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And he said: "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">I take refuge in God, my rock,<note>So many LXX mss, Targum, Vulgate, and Psa 18:3. MT has "the God of my rock"</note> my shield, and the {strength}<note>Literally "horn"</note> of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">I call <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> Yahweh who is praiseworthy, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> saved from those who hate me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">In my distress I called <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help <transChange type="added">was</transChange> to his ears.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">The earth heaved and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because {he was angry}.<note>Literally "it was hot for him"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> under his feet.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">He put darkness <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.<note>Literally "clouds of thick clouds"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High {uttered his voice}.<note>Literally "gave his voice"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">He sent from a high position <transChange type="added">and</transChange> took me; he drew me from mighty waters.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> mightier than I.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> my support.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">For all of his ordinances <transChange type="added">were</transChange> before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="26">With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="27">With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Humble people you will deliver, but your eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on the haughty, <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> you bring down.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">For you, O Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="31">This God, his way <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blameless; the promise of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> flawless. He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a shield to all who take refuge in him.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="32">For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God apart from Yahweh? And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a rock apart from our God?</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way.<note>Thus Qere; Kethib has "his way"</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">He makes my feet<note>Thus Qere; Kethib has "his feet"</note> like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="36">You have given me the shield of your salvation; your willingness to help has made me great.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="38">I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them. I did not turn back until finishing them.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="39">I wiped them out and I smashed them; they did not get up; they fell under my feet.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="40">You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="41">{My enemies you cause to retreat from me};<note>Literally "Those who hate me you give to me back"</note> I destroy those who hate me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="42">They looked out, but there was no deliverer, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="43">I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="44">You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="45">Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; {when they heard of me},<note>Literally "at the hearing of an ear"</note> they became obedient to me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="46">Children of a foreign land lost heart and came trembling from their strongholds.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="47">Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="49">He brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rose up against me you lift me up, and from men of violence you rescue me.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="50">Therefore I will extol you, Yahweh, among the nations! I will sing praises to your name!</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="51">He makes great salvation <transChange type="added">for</transChange> his king and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David and to his descendants forever."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the last words of David, the declaration of David the son of Jesse, and the declaration of the man exalted <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the Most High, the anointed one of the God of Jacob and the darling of the songs of Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">"The spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, and his word <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon my tongue.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Like the light of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, <transChange type="added">bringing</transChange> vegetation from the earth apart from rain.'<note>In other words, even men who rule rightly pass like the dew of the morning</note></verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Yet not so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my house with God, for he made an everlasting covenant for me, arranging everything. He has secured all my deliverance, and all my desire he will cause to happen.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">But evil persons <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">And if a man wants to touch them, he must use an iron instrument or the shaft of a spear; then they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> consumed entirely with fire on the spot." </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the mighty warriors who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> David's: Josheb-Basshebeth a Tahkemonite <transChange type="added">was</transChange> chief of three officers; first Adino, whose spear <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against eight hundred slain on one occurrence.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Next to him Eleazar, the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> among the three mighty warriors with David when they defied the Philistines and they gathered there for the battle and the men of Israel withdrew.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping <transChange type="added">the dead</transChange>.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Next to him <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shamma, the son of Agee the Hararite. When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines assembled at Lehi, a plot of the field was there filled with lentils, and the army fled there from the presence of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">But he took a stand in the middle of the plot of land and defended it. He killed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and Yahweh brought about a great victory.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then three<note>So Qere; Kethib reads "thirty"</note> of the thirty leaders went down and came to David {at the time of the harvest}<note>Literally "to the harvest"</note> to the cave of Adullam, while a group of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> camping in the valley of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Rephaim.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Now at that time, David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the stronghold, and a garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Bethlehem at that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> time.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">David {said longingly},<note>Literally "desired and said"</note> "{Oh that someone would bring me a drink}<note>Literally "Who will let me drink ...?"</note> of water from the well of Bethlehem that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at the gate."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So three of the mighty warriors broke into the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and they drew water from the well of Bethlehem that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the gate, and they carried <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to David. But he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">He said, "Far be it from me before Yahweh that I should do this. <transChange type="added">Is this not</transChange> the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" So he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty warriors did.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> himself the leader of the thirty. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> wielding his spear against three hundred slain and {gained a name}<note>Literally "and to him a name"</note> among the thirty.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Among the thirty, is it not that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> honored and became a commander for them? But he did not come up to the three.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of Ish-Hai, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a great <transChange type="added">man</transChange> of deeds from Kabzeel. He struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">He also killed a good-looking Egyptian man, in whose hand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a spear. He went down against him with the staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> honored more than the thirty, but he did not come up to the three. David appointed him in charge of his bodyguard. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Among the thirty <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Benaiah <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Pirathonite, Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="33"><transChange type="added">the son</transChange> of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="34">Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="37">Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the carriers of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Again Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> angry with Israel, and he<note>The parallel passage in 1 Chr 21 names the "he" as Satan</note> incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="2">The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him: "Please go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then Joab said to the king, "May Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times {what they are}<note>Literally "as them and as them"</note> as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="4">But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="5">They crossed over the Jordan and camped at Aroer to the south of the city, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the middle of the wadi of Gad, and up to Jazer.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then they went to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi. They came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="7">and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="8">They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then Joab gave the number of the counting of the people to the king. Israel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eight hundred thousand {valiant warriors}<note>Literally "men of ability"</note> wielding the sword, and the men of Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> five hundred thousand.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="10">The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="11">When David got up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to Gad the prophet, the seer of David, saying,</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="12">"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, three things I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> laying on you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.'"</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then David said to Gad, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> greatly distressed. Please let us fall into the hand of Yahweh, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great in his compassion; but into the hand of man don't let me fall."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning {until the agreed time},<note>Literally "until the time of agreed time"</note> and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died. </verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="16">When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, Yahweh regretted about the evil, and he said to the angel who brought destruction among the people, "Enough, now relax your hand." Now the angel of Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="17">David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, "Look, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then Gad came to David on that same day and said to him, "Go up and erect an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over to him, so Araunah went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh who brought a halt to the plague on the people."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in his eyes. Look, here <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the cattle for the burnt offering and the threshing sledge and the yokes of the oxen for the firewood.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="23">All of this Araunah hereby gives to the king." Then Araunah said to the king, "May Yahweh your God respond favorably for you."</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but {I will certainly buy}<note>Literally "buying I will buy"</note> it from you for a price; I don't want to offer to Yahweh my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty shekels of silver.</verse>


book: 2Sam
content:
<verse num="25">David built an altar to Yahweh there, and he offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then Yahweh responded to <transChange type="added">his</transChange> prayer for the land and brought the plague to a halt from upon Israel. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">Now King David had become old, {advanced in years},<note>Literally "he went in the days"</note> and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">His servants said to him, "Let them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king. Let her be of use for him, and let her lie in your lap that my lord the king may be warm."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">So they sought a beautiful young woman in all the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunnamite and brought her to the king.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
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<verse num="4">Now the young woman was very beautiful; she was of use for the king, and she served him, but the king did not {have sexual relations with her}.<note>Literally "know her"</note> </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">His father did not rebuke him {at any time}<note>Literally "from his days"</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange> saying, "Why did you do so?" Now he was also very handsome of appearance; she had borne him after Absalom.<note>"She" refers to Haggith bearing Adonijah; Absalom's mother was Maacah</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">{He conferred}<note>Literally "And there were his words"</note> with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and {they supported Adonijah}.<note>Literally "they helped after Adonijah"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
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<verse num="8">But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty warriors were David's; they were not with Adonijah. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
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<verse num="9">And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened animals near the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel. He invited all of his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty warriors or Solomon his brother. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, but our lord David does not know?</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">So then, come, let me advise you please, {that you may save}<note>Literally "and save"</note> your life and the life of your son, Solomon.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">Come, go to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord the king, sworn to your servant, "Surely Solomon your son shall become king after me. And he will sit on my throne"? But why is Adonijah king?'</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">While you are still there speaking with the king, I will enter after you, and {I will confirm your words}."<note>Literally "I will make full your words"</note> </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">So Bathsheba went to the king in the private room. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunnamite was attending the king.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">Bathsheba knelt and bowed down before the king, and the king asked, "{What do you want}?"<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, 'Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!'</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="18">But now, look! Adonijah has become king! And now, my lord the king, you do not know!</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">He has sacrificed oxen and sheep and fattened animals {in abundance},<note>Literally "as far as the many"</note> and he has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he did not invite.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">But as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="21">It shall be that when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> I and my son Solomon will be <transChange type="added">considered as</transChange> sinners." </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="22">While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came <transChange type="added">in</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="23">They told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." He came into the presence of the king and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="24">Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne'? </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="25">"For he went down today and sacrificed oxen, sheep, and fattened animals {in abundance}.<note>Literally "as far as the many"</note> He invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and look, they are eating and drinking before him. They have also said, "Long live King Adonijah!</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="26">But me, your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he did not invite.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="27">If it was from my lord the king that this thing has happened, <transChange type="added">then all is well,</transChange> but if not, you must let your servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="28">Then King David answered and said, "Summon Bathsheba for me." Then she came before the king and stood in his presence.<note>Following the corrected LXX and Vulgate</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="29">Then the king swore and said, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> who has saved my life from all trouble,</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="30">surely as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son shall surely be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' surely I shall do so this <transChange type="added">very</transChange> day."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="31">Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever." </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="32">Then King David said, "Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada," and they came before the king.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="33">The king said to them, "Take with you all the servants of your lord, and let them make Solomon my son ride on my mule, and bring him down to Gihon.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="34">Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel. Blow on the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="35">Then you shall go up after him, and let him come and sit on my throne; he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be leader over Israel and Judah."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="36">Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! So may Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, confirm it!</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="37">As Yahweh was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="38">Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, and they let Solomon ride on the mule of King David, and they brought him to Gihon.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="39">Then Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and he anointed Solomon. They blew on the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="40">All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on the flutes and rejoicing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> great joy, and the earth shook with their noise. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="41">And Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. Now they were finished eating when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, "{Why is there such a noise in the city?}"<note>Literally "Why is the sound of the city noisy?"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="42">While he was still speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, "Come, for you are a man of valor, and you bring good news."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="43">Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, "But our lord King David has made Solomon king!</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="44">He sent Zadok the priest with the king, and Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites; they made him ride on the king's mule.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="45">Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing. The city has gone wild; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sound which you heard.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="47">The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' So the king worshiped on the bed.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="48">What is more, the king said, 'May Yahweh the God of Israel be blessed, who has given this day one sitting on my throne, and my eyes are seeing <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!'" </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="49">Then all the invited guests who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for Adonijah trembled and got up and went, each on his way.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="50">Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon, and he got up and went and grasped the horns of the altar.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="51">Solomon was told, "Look, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, and he has grasped the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me {first}<note>Literally "as the day"</note> that he will surely not kill his servant with the sword!'"</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="52">Solomon said, "If he is a son of noble character, not a hair of his <transChange type="added">head</transChange> will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, then he will die."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="53">Then King Solomon sent and brought him down from upon the altar. He came and did obeisance to King Solomon. Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">The days of David came near <transChange type="added">for him</transChange> to die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying,</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">"I <transChange type="added">am about to</transChange> go the way of all the world. Be strong and be {courageous}.<note>Literally "as a man"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">You shall keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, as are written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and everywhere you turn,</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'" </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">"Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me when he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, and he murdered them and put the blood of war in <transChange type="added">a time of</transChange> peace. He put the blood of war on the leather belt that was on his waist and on the sandals which were on his feet.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">Regarding the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, you shall do loyal love and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he {cursed me severely}<note>Literally "cursed me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a curse"</note> when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, 'I surely will not kill you with the sword.'</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">So then, do not leave him unpunished, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a wise man, and you will know what you must do to him. You must bring his grey hair down to Sheol with blood." </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">Then David slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried in the city of David.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">The days that David reigned over Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="13">Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, "{Are you coming in peace}?"<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> peace your coming?"</note> He said, "Peace."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="14">Then he said, "{May I have a word with you}?"<note>Literally "A word is for me to you"</note> Then she said, "Go on."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="15">He said, "You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother's, for it was from Yahweh for him <transChange type="added">to have it</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="16">Now one request I am asking from you, and you must {not refuse me}."<note>Literally "not turn my face"</note> Then she said to him, "Go on."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="17">He said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="19">Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king's mother, and she sat on his right.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="20">She said, "I have one small request I am asking from you. Do {not refuse me}."<note>Literally "not turn my face"</note> The king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will {not refuse you}."<note>Literally "not turn your face"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="21">Then she said, "Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="22">King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "Why are you asking Abishag the Shunnamite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than I; and <transChange type="added">ask</transChange> for him also Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="23">Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn't spoken this thing at the expense of his life.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="24">So then, {as Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> who has established me and seated me on the throne of my father David and who has established for me a dynasty as he promised, then surely Adonijah will be put to death today."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="25">King Solomon sent through the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, so he struck him, and he died. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="26">To Abiathar the priest, the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your field, for {you deserve to die},<note>Literally "you are a man of death"</note> but on this day I will not kill you, for you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you endured hardship in all the hardship that my father endured."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="27">So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, thus fulfilling the word which Yahweh had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="28">When the message came to Joab (now Joab {had supported}<note>Literally "had turned after"</note> Adonijah but {had not supported}<note>Literally "had not turned after"</note> Absalom), he fled to the tent of Yahweh and grasped the horns of the altar.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="29">It was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh and was beside the altar. So Solomon sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go and fall upon him."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="30">So Benaiah went to the tent of Yahweh, and he said to him, "Thus says the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "No, for I want to die here." So Benaiah returned a word to the king, saying, "Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="31">Then the king said to him, "Do as he spoke; fall upon him and bury him, and so you shall remove the innocent blood that Joab shed from on me and from on the house of my father.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="32">Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; <transChange type="added">namely</transChange> Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="33">And their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but for David and his descendants and for his house and his throne, <transChange type="added">there</transChange> will be peace forever from Yahweh."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="34">So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and he fell on him and killed him, and he was buried in his house in the wilderness.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="35">Then the king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="36">Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but you must not go out {anywhere whatsoever}<note>Literally "where and where"</note> from there.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="37">It shall happen that on the day you go out and cross over the Wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kidron, know for certain that {you will surely die}.<note>Literally "dying you will die"</note> Your blood will be on your head."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="38">Shimei said to the king, "The word is good that my lord the king has spoken to me; thus will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="39">It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei's slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Your slaves <transChange type="added">are</transChange> here in Gath."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="40">So Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and he went to Gath, to Achish, to search for his slaves. So Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="41">When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned,</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="42">the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Did I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, 'On the day you go out and you go {anywhere whatsoever},<note>Literally "where and where"</note> know for certain that {you will surely die}.'<note>Literally "dying you will die"</note> And you said to me, 'The word is good; I accept.'</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="43">Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?"</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="44">Then the king said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which your heart knows, what you did to David my father. Now Yahweh will return the evil on your head,</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="45">but King Solomon will be blessed and the throne of David will be established before Yahweh forever."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="46">Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="1">Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the city of David until he finished building his house, the house of Yahweh, and the walls of Jerusalem all around.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="2">But the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> been built in those days.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="3">Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father; only he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="4">So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, for the great high place <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="6">Then Solomon said, "You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> this day.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="7">So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father <transChange type="added">though</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="8">Your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="9">Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?" </verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="10">The word was good in the eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.</verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="11">And God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself {a long life}<note>Literally "many days"</note> and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself {the ability to make wise judgments};<note>Literally "understanding to hear judgment"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
content:
<verse num="12">behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> no man among the kings will be like you all of your days.</verse>


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<verse num="14">If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Solomon awoke, and look, <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> a dream, and he came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants. </verse>


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<verse num="17">The one woman said, "Please my lord, I and this woman are living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the house.</verse>


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<verse num="18">It happened on the third day <transChange type="added">after</transChange> my giving birth, this woman also gave birth, and we <transChange type="added">were</transChange> together. There was not anyone with us in the house, only the two of us <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the house.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then the son of this woman died <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> night because she laid on him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.</verse>


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<verse num="21">When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne."</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then the other woman said, "No, for my son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the living one, and your son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dead one." The other kept on saying, "No, for your son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dead one, and my son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the living one," and so they argued in front of the king.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then the king said, "This one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> saying, 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my son, the living one, but your son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dead one,' and the other one keeps saying, 'But no! Your son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dead one, and my son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> living!'"</verse>


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<verse num="24">So the king said, "Bring me a sword," and they brought the sword before the king.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then the king said, "Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other."</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then the woman whose son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!" The other one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> saying, "As for me, so for you! Divide <transChange type="added">him</transChange>!"</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to her, and do not kill him; she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his mother."</verse>


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<verse num="28">When all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had rendered, they {stood in awe}<note>Literally "feared the face"</note> of the king, because they realized that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice. </verse>


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<verse num="2">Now these are the officials who were his: Azariah the son of Zadok <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the priest.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the recorder.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Benaiah the son of Jehoiada <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the army, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Azariah the son of Nathan <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the governors, and Zabud the son of Nathan was a priest, an advisor to the king.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Ahishar <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the palace, and Adoniram the son of Abda <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the forced labor.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, {each one was to sustain for each month of the year}.<note>Literally "a month in the year he was over one to sustain"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their names: Ben-Hur <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the hill country of Ephraim.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Ben-Deker <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth-Shemesh and Elon of Beth-Hanan.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Ben-Hesed <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the Arubbot; Socoh and all the land of Hepher <transChange type="added">were</transChange> his.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Ben-Abinadab <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in all of Naphat of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Baanah the son of Ahilud <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beside Zarethan below Jezreel, of Beth-Shean up to Abel-Meholah up to the other side of Jokmeam.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Ben-Geber <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead <transChange type="added">were</transChange> his, and the region of Argob which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls <transChange type="added">having</transChange> crossbars of bronze, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> his.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Ahinadab the son of Iddo <transChange type="added">was in</transChange> Mahanaim.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Ahimaaz <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Naphtali; he moreover also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Baanah the son of Hushai <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Asher and Bealoth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Issachar.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Shimei the son of Ela <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Geber the son of Uri <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the land.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Judah and Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing! </verse>


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<verse num="21"><note>1 Kings 4:21-5:18 in the English Bible is 5:1-32 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> bringing tribute and <transChange type="added">were</transChange> serving Solomon all the days of his life.</verse>


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<verse num="22">The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;</verse>


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<verse num="23">ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.</verse>


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<verse num="24">For he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ruling over all the west of the River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River;<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> and he had peace from every side all around.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="26">Now Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his war chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.</verse>


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<verse num="27">These governors sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each <transChange type="added">in</transChange> his month; they did not omit anything.</verse>


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<verse num="28">The barley and the straw for the horses and for packhorses they brought to the place where they were, each according to his share. </verse>


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<verse num="29">God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as {breadth of understanding},<note>Literally "width of heart"</note> as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore.</verse>


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<verse num="30">The wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the people<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east and more than all the wisdom of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="31">He was wiser than all the men: Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman, Calcol, and Darda the children of Mahol; and {he was very well known}.<note>Literally "his name was among all the peoples around"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">He spoke concerning the trees, from the cedar which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Lebanon up to the hyssop which grows on the wall; he also spoke concerning the animals, concerning the birds, concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fish.</verse>


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<verse num="34">They came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon; from all the kings of the earth who had heard <transChange type="added">of</transChange> his wisdom. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend for David.</verse>


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<verse num="3">"You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, {in view of the warfare}<note>Literally "because of the face of the warfare"</note> which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them<note>That is, David's enemies</note> under the soles of his feet.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Here I am, intending to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh promised to my father David, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, shall build the house for my name.'</verse>


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<verse num="6">So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows <transChange type="added">how</transChange> to cut timber like the Sidonians."</verse>


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<verse num="7">When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, "Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses.</verse>


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<verse num="9">My servants will bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them <transChange type="added">into</transChange> rafts in the sea <transChange type="added">to float to</transChange> the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry <transChange type="added">them further</transChange>, and {you shall meet my needs}<note>Literally "you shall do my desire"</note> by giving food for my house."</verse>


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<verse num="10">So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, {everything he needed}.<note>Literally "all of his desire"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat <transChange type="added">as</transChange> food for his household, and twenty dry measures of {specially prepared olive oil};<note>Literally "beaten olive oil"</note> thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor <transChange type="added">numbered</transChange> thirty thousand men.</verse>


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<verse num="14">He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand {every month};<note>Literally "in the month"</note> the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Solomon had seventy thousand {common laborers}<note>Literally "carrying burden"</note> and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work.</verse>


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<verse num="17">When the king commanded, they quarried great stones <transChange type="added">and</transChange> precious stones to lay <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundation of the house <transChange type="added">with</transChange> hewn stones.</verse>


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<verse num="18">So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites hewed <transChange type="added">stones</transChange>, and they prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year <transChange type="added">after</transChange> the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year {of Solomon's rule}<note>Literally "Solomon to rule"</note> over Israel, the month of Ziv (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sixty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its length and twenty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its width and thirty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its height.</verse>


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<verse num="3">The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its length, and the width of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ten cubits wide on the face of the temple.<note>Or "house"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And he made for the temple<note>Or "house"</note> specially designed framed windows,</verse>


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<verse num="5">and he built a structure against the wall of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">running</transChange> all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around.</verse>


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<verse num="6">The lower structure <transChange type="added">was</transChange> five cubits in its width and the middle <transChange type="added">was</transChange> six cubits in its width and the third <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple<note>Or "house"</note> all around to the outside, <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> beams <transChange type="added">would</transChange> not attach to the walls of the temple.<note>Or "house"</note></verse>


book: 1Kgs
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<verse num="7">Now while the temple<note>Or "house"</note> was being built, it was built <transChange type="added">with</transChange> stones finished <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> quarry, <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple<note>Or "house"</note> as it was being built.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third <transChange type="added">floor</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="9">So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.</verse>


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<verse num="10">He also built the structure against all of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple<note>Or "house"</note> with beams of cedar. </verse>


book: 1Kgs
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<verse num="12">"<transChange type="added">Regarding</transChange> this temple<note>Or "house"</note> that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And I will dwell {among}<note>Literally "in the middle of"</note> the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and I will not forsake my people Israel." </verse>


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<verse num="15">He lined the walls {of the inside of the house}<note>Literally "the house from house"</note> with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered <transChange type="added">them with</transChange> wood {on the inside}.<note>Literally "from house"</note> He also covered the floor of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> with cypress boards.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the {most holy place}.<note>Literally "as the holy place of the holy places." Often referred to as the Holy of Holies</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">The main hall of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> was forty cubits {in front of the inner sanctuary},<note>So LXX supported by the Vulgate. MT has "before me"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">with the cedar within the inner house <transChange type="added">having</transChange> carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It <transChange type="added">was</transChange> entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Now <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.</verse>


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<verse num="20">In front, the inner sanctuary <transChange type="added">was</transChange> twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> pure gold and covered the altar <transChange type="added">with</transChange> cedar.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Solomon overlaid the temple<note>Or "house"</note> on the inside <transChange type="added">with</transChange> pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold. </verse>


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<verse num="22">All of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> he overlaid with gold until all of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.</verse>


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<verse num="23">He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Five cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his <transChange type="added">one</transChange> wing up to the tip of his <transChange type="added">other</transChange> wing.</verse>


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<verse num="25">The second cherub <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ten cubits <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> {the same}<note>Literally "one"</note> measurement, and <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was one shape for the two cherubim.</verse>


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<verse num="26">The height of the first cherub <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ten cubits and so <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the second cherub. </verse>


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<verse num="27">He placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubim; the wing of the first cherub touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub <transChange type="added">was</transChange> touching against the second wall; their wings <transChange type="added">spread</transChange> to the middle of the house <transChange type="added">and were</transChange> touching wing to wing.</verse>


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<verse num="29">On all of the walls around the house, he carved engravings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers both inside and out.</verse>


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<verse num="31">He made doors of olive wood for the doorway of the inner sanctuary, <transChange type="added">as well as for</transChange> the doorpost of the fifth doorframe.</verse>


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<verse num="32"><transChange type="added">On</transChange> the two doors of olive wood he made carvings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers, and he overlaid them with gold {by beating}<note>Literally "and he beat out"</note> out the gold on the cherubim and the palm tree images.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Thus he made doorframes of olive wood on four sides for the doorway of the main hall</verse>


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<verse num="34">and two doors of cypress wood; one door <transChange type="added">with</transChange> two folding panels and the second door <transChange type="added">with</transChange> two folding panels.</verse>


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<verse num="35">He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Then he built the inner courtyard <transChange type="added">with</transChange> three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams.</verse>


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<verse num="37">In the fourth year,<note>That is, the fourth year of Solomon's reign</note> the house of Yahweh was founded in the month of Ziv.</verse>


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<verse num="38">In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished <transChange type="added">according</transChange> to all his specifications and <transChange type="added">according</transChange> to all his plans. He had built it in seven years. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Solomon built his house <transChange type="added">over</transChange> thirteen years, and he finished all of his house. </verse>


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<verse num="2">He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars.</verse>


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<verse num="3">It was covered with cedar above, and the supporting beams which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the forty-five pillars, fifteen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the row.</verse>


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<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">There were</transChange> three rows of specially designed windows; <transChange type="added">with</transChange> window to window three times.</verse>


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<verse num="5">All of the doorways and the doorframes <transChange type="added">had</transChange> four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times. </verse>


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<verse num="6">The hall of pillars he made fifty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its length and thirty cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> its width, and a porch <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {in front of them},<note>Literally "on their face"</note> with pillars and an overhang {in front of them}.<note>Literally "on their face"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">He made the hall of the throne where he <transChange type="added">would</transChange> pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.<note>Hebrew "floor," but other ancient versions have "rafters"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken <transChange type="added">as wife</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="9">All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw {on all sides};<note>Literally "on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inside and on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outside"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundation up to the eaves and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> outside up to the great courtyard.</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> foundation <transChange type="added">was of</transChange> precious stones, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> large stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits</verse>


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<verse num="11">with precious stones above, {just the right size},<note>Literally "according to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> measurement of dressed stones"</note> and cedar.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for <transChange type="added">both</transChange> the courtyard of the inner house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh and for the porch of the house. </verse>


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<verse num="14">He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a man of Tyre, an artisan of bronze. He was filled with wisdom and with ability and with the knowledge to do all the work with the bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work.</verse>


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<verse num="15">He cast the two pillars <transChange type="added">out of</transChange> bronze; eighteen cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the height of the first, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars <transChange type="added">out of</transChange> molten bronze; the first capital <transChange type="added">was</transChange> five cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> height, and the second capital <transChange type="added">was</transChange> five cubits <transChange type="added">in</transChange> height.</verse>


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<verse num="17">A network of latticework <transChange type="added">and</transChange> wreaths of chainwork with small chains <transChange type="added">were</transChange> for the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on top of the pillars; seven for the first capital and seven for the second capital.</verse>


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<verse num="18">He also made the pillars with two rows around on the lattice, each to cover the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on top, <transChange type="added">out of</transChange> the pomegranate-shaped ornaments, and thus he did for the second capital <transChange type="added">as well</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on top of the pillars in the porch <transChange type="added">were</transChange> works of lilies four cubits <transChange type="added">high</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And capitals <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the two pillars above near the bulging section which was beside the lattice, and two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in rows all around on the second capital.</verse>


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<verse num="21">He set up the pillars for the porch of the main hall; he erected the pillar on the right and called its name Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz.</verse>


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<verse num="22">On the top of the pillars <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a work of lilies; and so the work of the pillars <transChange type="added">was</transChange> finished. </verse>


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<verse num="23">He also made the molten<note>That is, cast from molten bronze</note> sea, ten cubits {in diameter},<note>Literally "from its edge up to its edge, round all around"</note> and five cubits <transChange type="added">was</transChange> its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Gourds <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under its rim surrounding it all around; ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea all around with two rows of gourds, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> were cast when he cast the metal.</verse>


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<verse num="25"><transChange type="added">The sea</transChange> was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on top of them, with all of their hindquarters <transChange type="added">turned</transChange> to the inside.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Its thickness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a handbreadth, but its rim <transChange type="added">was</transChange> as the work on the brim of a cup, <transChange type="added">like the</transChange> bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths. </verse>


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<verse num="27">He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Now this <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the construction of the stands: there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> frames for them and frames between the crossbars,</verse>


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<verse num="29">and on the frames which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> between the crossbars <transChange type="added">were</transChange> lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the crossbars both above and beneath the lions and oxen <transChange type="added">were</transChange> works of cascading wreaths.</verse>


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<verse num="30"><transChange type="added">There were</transChange> four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the basin, and the supports <transChange type="added">were</transChange> decorated on each side <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wreaths.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Its opening from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inside of the capital and above <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a cubit; its pedestal <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a round work of a cubit and a half; moreover, on its opening <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the carvings with four-sided frames, not circular.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Four of the wheels <transChange type="added">were</transChange> underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the stands. The height of each wheel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a cubit and a half.</verse>


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<verse num="33">The construction of the wheel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the construction of the wheel of the chariot; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their naves <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all cast.</verse>


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<verse num="34">The four supports <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the four corners of each stand, with the stand supporting it.</verse>


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<verse num="35">On top of the stand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> half a cubit deep, circular all around, and on the top of the stand <transChange type="added">were</transChange> its supports and its frames.</verse>


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<verse num="36">He engraved on the plates, on its supports, and on its frame cherubim, lions and images of a palm tree, according to the space for each, with wreaths all around.</verse>


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<verse num="37">He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them. </verse>


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<verse num="38">He also made ten bronze basins, <transChange type="added">each</transChange> holding forty baths; each basin <transChange type="added">was</transChange> four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands.</verse>


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<verse num="39">He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house. </verse>


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<verse num="40">Hiram also made the basins and the shovels and the bowls for drinking wine; and so Hiram finished doing all of the work {that he was to do}<note>Literally "that he did"</note> for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh:</verse>


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<verse num="41">the two pillars and the bowls of the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> atop the two pillars, and the two lattice works to cover the two bowls of the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> atop the pillars;</verse>


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<verse num="42">and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the surface of the pillars;</verse>


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<verse num="45">and the pots, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the house of Yahweh <transChange type="added">were</transChange> polished bronze.</verse>


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<verse num="46">The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold <transChange type="added">set in</transChange> the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.</verse>


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<verse num="47">Solomon left all of the vessels <transChange type="added">unweighed</transChange> because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined. </verse>


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<verse num="48">Solomon also made all of the vessels which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the bread of the presence;</verse>


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<verse num="49">as well as the five lampstands of beaten gold at the south and five lampstands at the north before the presence of the inner sanctuary, with the flower-shaped ornaments, the lamps, and the pair of tongs <transChange type="added">all of gold</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="50">The cups, the snuffers, the bowls for drinking wine, the bowls for the incense, and the firepans <transChange type="added">were made from</transChange> beaten gold; the facades for the doors of the inner house, for the {most holy place},<note>Literally "holy of the holiest"</note> for the doors of the main hall of the temple <transChange type="added">were of</transChange> gold.</verse>


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<verse num="51"><transChange type="added">When</transChange> all of the work which king Solomon did on the house of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought out the holy objects of his father David, the silver and the gold and the vessels, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> he put in the treasury rooms of the house of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">At that time, Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> before King Solomon, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, that is, Zion.</verse>


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<verse num="2">All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month.</verse>


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<verse num="4">So they brought up the ark of Yahweh and the tent of assembly<note>Or "meeting"</note> and all of the holy vessels that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.</verse>


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<verse num="5">King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel who were assembling with him in the presence of the ark <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered because of abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="6">The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the {most holy place},<note>Literally "holy of the holiest"</note> under the wings of the cherubim,</verse>


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<verse num="7">for the cherubim <transChange type="added">were</transChange> spreading their wings over the place of the ark. The cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles from above.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The poles <transChange type="added">were</transChange> long, and the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place {in front of}<note>Literally "on the face of"</note> the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the outside, and they are there until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="9">There was not <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> in the ark {except}<note>Hebrew "only"</note> the two tablets of stone which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> <transChange type="added">a covenant</transChange> with the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> after they went out from the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="10">When the priests went out from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="11">The priests <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not able to stand to minister {because of the presence of}<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of"</note> the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that <transChange type="added">he</transChange> would dwell in the very thick cloud.</verse>


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<verse num="13">I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."</verse>


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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">Then</transChange> the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing).</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then he said, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has promised with his mouth <transChange type="added">to</transChange> David my father and fulfilled {by his oath},<note>Literally "by his hand"</note> saying,</verse>


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<verse num="16">'From the day that I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name might be, but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'</verse>


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<verse num="17">{David my father desired}<note>Literally "It had been with<transChange type="added">in</transChange> the heart of David my father"</note> to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="18">but Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because {you desired}<note>Literally "it was within your heart"</note> to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was within your heart.</verse>


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<verse num="19">However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.'</verse>


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<verse num="20">Yahweh has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as Yahweh promised, and I have built the house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="21">I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> when He brought them out of the land of Egypt." </verse>


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<verse num="22">Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the heavens,</verse>


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<verse num="23">and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart.</verse>


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<verse num="24">You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled <transChange type="added">it</transChange> this very day.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.'</verse>


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<verse num="26">So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promised<note>Or "spoken"</note> to your servant David my father.</verse>


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<verse num="27">For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! {How could}<note>Literally "Even that"</note> this house that I have built?</verse>


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<verse num="28">You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> praying before you this day,</verse>


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<verse num="29">so that your eyes <transChange type="added">will</transChange> be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.</verse>


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<verse num="30">You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray <transChange type="added">toward</transChange> this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive.</verse>


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<verse num="31"><transChange type="added">If</transChange> a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house,</verse>


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<verse num="32">then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and {to declare the righteous innocent}<note>Literally "to declare righteous the righteous"</note> by rewarding him according to his righteousness.</verse>


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<verse num="33">When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy {because}<note>Literally "who"</note> they sinned against you, and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house,</verse>


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<verse num="34">then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them,</verse>


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<verse num="36">then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="37">If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease,</verse>


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<verse num="38">any prayer or any plea which is <transChange type="added">offered</transChange> by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> heart and spreads out his palms to this house,</verse>


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<verse num="39">then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man.</verse>


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<verse num="40"><transChange type="added">Do these things</transChange> so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="41">Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name,</verse>


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<verse num="42">(for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house,</verse>


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<verse num="43">you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built.</verse>


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<verse num="44">If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,</verse>


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<verse num="45">then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate}<note>Literally "their judgment"</note> them. </verse>


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<verse num="46">"If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near,</verse>


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<verse num="47">and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,'</verse>


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<verse num="48">if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> the city that you have chosen and the house that you<note>The Hebrew Masoretic text (Kethib) reads "you have built";Qere reads "I have built"</note> built for your name,</verse>


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<verse num="49">then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall {vindicate them}.<note>Literally "and you shall do their justice"</note></verse>


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<verse num="50">You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them,</verse>


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<verse num="51">for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron.</verse>


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<verse num="52"><transChange type="added">O,</transChange> that your eyes <transChange type="added">may</transChange> be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they call to you.</verse>


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<verse num="53">For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!" </verse>


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<verse num="54">It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="55">He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="56">"Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant.</verse>


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<verse num="57">May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and may he not leave us or abandon us,</verse>


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<verse num="58">to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="59">Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh <transChange type="added">be</transChange> near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel {as each day requires}<note>Literally "the word of the day on its day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="60">so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God; there is none other.</verse>


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<verse num="61">Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day." </verse>


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<verse num="62">Then the king and all of Israel with him offered a sacrifice in the presence of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="63">Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> dedicated the house of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="64">On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard before the house of Yahweh because he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings because the bronze altar that was in the presence of Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings.</verse>


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<verse num="65">Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days <transChange type="added">and</transChange> seven days, <transChange type="added">a total of</transChange> fourteen days.</verse>


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<verse num="66">On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and {in good spirits}<note>Literally "and good of heart"</note> because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king's house, and all the things Solomon desired to do,</verse>


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<verse num="2">Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.</verse>


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<verse num="4">As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with {integrity of heart}<note>Literally "in blamelessness of heart"</note> and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, <transChange type="added">and if</transChange> you keep my ordinances and my judgments,</verse>


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<verse num="5">then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.' </verse>


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<verse num="6">"If ever you or any of your descendants<note>Or "children"</note> turn from <transChange type="added">following</transChange> me and do not keep my commandments <transChange type="added">and</transChange> my ordinances that I have set before you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them,</verse>


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<verse num="7">then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.</verse>


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<verse num="8">This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, 'On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?'</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they will say, 'Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.'" </verse>


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<verse num="10">It happened at the end of twenty years <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king,</verse>


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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">since</transChange> Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram.</verse>


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<verse num="12">So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="13">So he said, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these cities that you have given to me, my brother?" {So they are called the land of Cabul until this day}.<note>Literally "So he called them the land of Cabul up to this day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire. He had also killed the Canaanites who were living in the city and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.</verse>


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<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">as well as</transChange> Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness in the land;</verse>


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<verse num="19">and <transChange type="added">he also built</transChange> all of the storage cities which were Solomon's, the cities <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the chariots, the cities <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the cavalry, and all of Solomon's desire that he wanted<note>Or "desired"</note> to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. </verse>


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<verse num="20">All of the people who were remaining from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">their children who remained after them in the land, whom the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day.</verse>


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<verse num="22">But from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Solomon did not make a slave, but they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the men of war, his officers, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.</verse>


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<verse num="23">These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the commanders of the overseers who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, ruling over the people doing the work. </verse>


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<verse num="24">As soon as the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house which he<note>That is, Solomon</note> built for her, then he built the Millo. </verse>


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<verse num="25">Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house. </verse>


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<verse num="26">King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near Elath on the shore of the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> in the land of Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, {sailors}<note>Literally "men of ships"</note> who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.</verse>


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<verse num="28">They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the queen of Sheba had heard of the fame of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh, and she came to test him with hard questions.</verse>


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<verse num="2">So she came to Jerusalem with very great wealth; <transChange type="added">with</transChange> camels carrying spices, very much gold, and precious stones. She came to Solomon, and she spoke to him all that was on her heart.</verse>


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<verse num="3">{Solomon answered all of her questions};<note>Literally "Solomon told her all of her words"</note> there was not a thing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her.</verse>


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<verse num="4">When the queen of Sheba observed all the wisdom of Solomon and the house which he had built,</verse>


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<verse num="5">the food of his table, the seat of his servants, the {manner}<note>Literally "service"</note> of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered in the house of Yahweh, {she was breathless}.<note>Literally "and there was not in her spirit/breath any longer"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">Then she said to the king, "The report which I heard in my land was true concerning your accomplishments and your wisdom.</verse>


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<verse num="7">I had not believed the report to be true until I came and my eyes had seen, and behold! The half had not been told to me. {Your wisdom and prosperity surpass}<note>Literally "You have added wisdom and prosperity to"</note> the report that I had heard.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Happy <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your men and happy <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these your servants who stand before you continually hearing your wisdom.</verse>


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<verse num="9">May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness."</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, abundant spices, and precious stones. Spices as these did not come again in such abundance <transChange type="added">as that which</transChange> the queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Moreover, the fleet of ships of Hiram which carried the gold from Ophir <transChange type="added">also</transChange> brought from Ophir abundant amounts of almug wood and precious stones.</verse>


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<verse num="12">The king made a raised structure for the house of Yahweh and for the house of the king out of the almug wood, as well as lyres and harps for the singers. <transChange type="added">This much</transChange> almug wood has not come nor been seen <transChange type="added">again</transChange> up to this day.</verse>


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<verse num="13">King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all of her desire that she asked, besides that which {King Solomon freely offered her}.<note>Literally "according to the hand of King Solomon"</note> Then she turned and went to her land with her servants. </verse>


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<verse num="14">The weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year <transChange type="added">was</transChange> six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,</verse>


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<verse num="15">apart from <transChange type="added">that of</transChange> the men of the traders and the profits of the traders, and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="16">King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred <transChange type="added">measures of</transChange> gold went up over each shield.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Also <transChange type="added">he made</transChange> three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the House of the Forest of Lebanon.</verse>


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<verse num="18">The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> fine gold.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Six steps <transChange type="added">led up</transChange> to the throne, and <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a circular top to the throne behind it, and armrests were {on each side of the seat},<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note> with two lions standing beside the armrests.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Twelve lions <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing there, six on each of the six steps {on either side};<note>Literally "from this and from this"</note> nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms.</verse>


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<verse num="21">All of the drinking vessels of King Solomon <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gold, and all the vessels for the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver; <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> not considered as something valuable in the days of Solomon.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king <transChange type="added">and was</transChange> on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons. </verse>


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<verse num="23">King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.</verse>


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<verse num="24">All of the earth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.</verse>


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<verse num="25">They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. {This used to happen year after year}.<note>Literally "A thing of year to year"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="26">Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="27">The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance.</verse>


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<verse num="28">The import of the horses which were Solomon's <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Egypt and from Kue; the traders of the king received <transChange type="added">horses</transChange> from Kue at a price.</verse>


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<verse num="29">A chariot went up and went out from Egypt at six hundred silver <transChange type="added">shekels</transChange> and a horse at a hundred and fifty. So it was for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they were exported. </verse>


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<verse num="1">King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite;</verse>


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<verse num="2">from the nations which Yahweh had said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "You shall not {marry them},<note>Literally "go into them"</note> and they shall not {marry you}.<note>Literally "go into you"</note> They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart. </verse>


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<verse num="4">It happened at the time of Solomon's old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father <transChange type="added">had been</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians and after Molech the abhorrence of the Ammonites.</verse>


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<verse num="6">So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully <transChange type="added">follow</transChange> after Yahweh as David his father.</verse>


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<verse num="7">At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which {faces}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the face of"</note> Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.</verse>


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<verse num="12">However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it <transChange type="added">away</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear <transChange type="added">away</transChange>. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen." </verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="15">It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="16">For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a young boy.</verse>


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<verse num="18">They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as wife.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the children<note>Or "sons"</note> of Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Now Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and that Joab the commander of the army was dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away that I may go to my land."</verse>


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<verse num="22">Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack with me that you now <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking to go to your land?" He said, "No, but you must surely send me away." </verse>


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<verse num="23">God had <transChange type="added">also</transChange> raised Rezon the son of Eliada as an adversary against him, who had fled from Hadadezer the king of Zobah, his master.</verse>


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<verse num="24">He gathered men around him and he became the commander of bandits. When David killed <transChange type="added">some of</transChange> them, they went to Damascus and settled {there},<note>Literally "in it"</note> and they reigned in Damascus.</verse>


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<verse num="25">He was an adversary for Israel all the days of Solomon, and <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> the evil that Hadad <transChange type="added">did</transChange>, he detested Israel <transChange type="added">while</transChange> he reigned over Aram. </verse>


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<verse num="26">Now Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah (now the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zeruah, a widow woman), a servant of Solomon {rebelled against the king}.<note>Literally "raised a hand against the king"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the reason that he rebelled against the king: <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Solomon built the Millo, he closed the gap of the city of David his father.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Now the man Jeroboam <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man {was a diligent worker},<note>Literally "was a doer of work he"</note> so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph.</verse>


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<verse num="29">It happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and he accidentally met Ahijah the Shilonite the prophet on the way. Now he had clothed himself with new clothing. While the two of them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> alone in the field,</verse>


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<verse num="30">Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on him and tore it into twelve pieces.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten tribes,</verse>


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<verse num="32">but one tribe shall be for him, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel;</verse>


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<verse num="33">because he has forsaken me, and they bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Molech, the god of the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> They did not walk in my ways to do right in my eyes, my ordinances, or my judgments, as <transChange type="added">did</transChange> David his father.</verse>


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<verse num="34">But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him a leader all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my ordinances.</verse>


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<verse num="35">But I will take the kingship from the hand of his son, and I will give ten tribes to you.</verse>


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<verse num="36">To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name.</verse>


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<verse num="37">You I will take, and you shall reign over all your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="38">It shall be that if you listen to all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then I will be with you, and I will build an enduring house for you as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.</verse>


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<verse num="39">I will punish the offspring of David on account of this; however, not always.'"</verse>


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<verse num="40">Then Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon. </verse>


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<verse num="41">Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom; <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the acts of Solomon?</verse>


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<verse num="42">All the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> forty years.</verse>


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<verse num="43">Then Solomon slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son became king in his place. </verse>


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


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<verse num="2">It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard <transChange type="added">of it</transChange> while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So they sent and summoned him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came. <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="4">"Your father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you."</verse>


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<verse num="5">He said, "Go up for three days and then return to me"; so the people went away. </verse>


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<verse num="6">Then King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had been {serving}<note>Literally "standing"</note> before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "How <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you advising <transChange type="added">me</transChange> {to answer this people}?"<note>Literally "to return a word to this people"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">They said to him, "If you will be a servant today to this people, then you will serve them; and if you answer them and speak good words to them, they will always be your servants."</verse>


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<verse num="8">But he rejected the advice of the old men, which they gave him, and he consulted with the youngsters who had grown up with him, who were {serving}<note>Literally "standing"</note> before him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">He said to them, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you advising that we should reply to this people who spoke to me by saying, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us.'"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the youngsters who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you: 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for us,' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'" </verse>


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


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<verse num="13">Then the king answered all the people harshly, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered.</verse>


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<verse num="14">He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."</verse>


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<verse num="15">So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from Yahweh in order to fulfill his word which Yahweh had spoken through the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</verse>


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<verse num="16">When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "{What share do we have in David}?<note>Literally "What is for us a share in David"</note> <transChange type="added">There is</transChange> no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> tents. </verse>


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<verse num="17">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were living in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam was reigning over them.</verse>


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<verse num="18">King Rehoboam sent Adoram who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the forced labor, and all of Israel cast stones at him and he died, but King Rehoboam managed to get up on the chariot to flee <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="20">It happened that just when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all of Israel. Not one <transChange type="added">followed</transChange> after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.</verse>


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<verse num="21">When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand {choice troops}<note>Literally "chosen makers of war"</note> to fight with the house of Israel, to restore the kingship to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.</verse>


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<verse num="23">"Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remainder of the people, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="24">'Thus says Yahweh: "You shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> Return each of you to his house, for this thing was from me." '" So they heeded the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go home according to the word of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he resided in it. Then he went out from there and built Penuel.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Jeroboam {said to himself},<note>Literally "said to his heart"</note> "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David</verse>


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<verse num="27">if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh in Jerusalem. The heart of this people will return to their master Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they shall kill me and {return to him}."<note>Hebrew "return to Rehoboam the king of Judah"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="28">And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them,<note>That is, the people</note> "{You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough};<note>Literally "enough for you from going up to Jerusalem"</note> here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt."</verse>


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<verse num="30">This thing became a sin, and the people walked before the one as far as Dan.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then he built the houses on the high places, and he appointed priests {from all walks of life}<note>Literally "from the fringes of the people"</note> who were not from the sons of Levi.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Jeroboam also inaugurated a religious feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the religious feast which was in Judah, and he offered <transChange type="added">sacrifices</transChange> on the altar. Thus he did in Bethel, by sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.</verse>


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<verse num="33">He offered <transChange type="added">sacrifices</transChange> on the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month which his heart had devised. He inaugurated a religious feast for the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and he went up to the altar to offer incense. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Suddenly a man of God from Judah came to Bethel, by the word of Yahweh, while Jeroboam <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing at the altar to offer incense.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'" </verse>


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<verse num="3">He gave a sign on that day, saying, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign that Yahweh has predetermined: Look, <transChange type="added">this</transChange> altar will be torn <transChange type="added">apart</transChange>, and the ashes that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on it will be poured out." </verse>


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<verse num="4">It happened at the moment the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" But his hand which he stretched out to him was paralyzed, and he was not able to draw it back to himself.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then the altar was torn <transChange type="added">apart</transChange> and the ashes from the altar poured out according to the sign which the man of God had announced by the word of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the king spoke to the man of God, "Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the man of God said to the king, "Even if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place,</verse>


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<verse num="9">for the word of Yahweh has commanded me, saying, 'You shall not eat bread nor drink water, and you shall not return on the way that you came.'"</verse>


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<verse num="10">So he went another way, and he did not return by the way on which he had come to Bethel. </verse>


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<verse num="11">Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then their father asked them, "{Which way did he go}?"<note>Literally "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this way he went?"</note> His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it</verse>


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<verse num="14">and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then he said to him, "Come with me to the house and eat <transChange type="added">some</transChange> food."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then he said, "I am not able to return with you or to go with you. I will not eat food nor will I drink water with you in this place.</verse>


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<verse num="17">For a word <transChange type="added">came</transChange> to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.'" </verse>


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<verse num="18">Then he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Let him return with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water.'" He lied to him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Now it happened that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sitting at the table, and the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back.</verse>


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<verse num="21">He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you,</verse>


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<verse num="22">but you have returned and have eaten food and drank water in the place which he ordered you not to eat food nor to drink water, then your dead body shall not return to the tomb of your ancestors.'"<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="23">It happened after he ate food and drank water that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.</verse>


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<verse num="24">When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing by the dead body.</verse>


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<verse num="25">As men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> passing by and they saw the dead body thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the dead body, they came and told it in the city where the old prophet <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living.</verse>


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<verse num="26">When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him."</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it.</verse>


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<verse num="28">He went and found his dead body thrown in the road and a donkey with the lion standing beside it, but the lion had not eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.</verse>


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<verse num="29">So the prophet lifted up the corpse of the man of God and put it on the donkey and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn him and to bury him.</verse>


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<verse num="30">He put his corpse in his tomb, and they mourned over him, "Alas, my brother!"</verse>


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<verse num="31">It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, "When I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones.</verse>


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<verse num="32">For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Bethel will happen, <transChange type="added">as it will</transChange> against all the houses of the high places which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the cities of Samaria." </verse>


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<verse num="33">After this event, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but he returned and <transChange type="added">again</transChange> made priests for the high places of people from {all walks of life}.<note>Literally "from the fringes of the people"</note> He filled his hand with all <transChange type="added">his</transChange> desire and became <transChange type="added">one of</transChange> the priests of the high places <transChange type="added">himself</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="34">This matter became sin in the house of Jeroboam, to make it disappear and to destroy <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from the surface of the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="2">Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the wife of Jeroboam, and go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Shiloh. Look, Ahijah the prophet is there, and he spoke concerning me <transChange type="added">before I became</transChange> king over this people.</verse>


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<verse num="3">You must take ten loaves of bread in your hand and cakes and a jar of honey, and you must go to him. He shall tell you what will happen to the boy."</verse>


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<verse num="4">The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Shiloh, and came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for {his eyes were fixed}<note>Literally "his eyes stood"</note> because of his old age.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Look, the wife of Jeroboam <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ill. {Thus and so}<note>Literally "As this and as this"</note> you shall say to her. When she comes, she <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> disguising herself."</verse>


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<verse num="6">It happened at the moment Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, "Come <transChange type="added">in</transChange>, wife of Jeroboam. Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you making yourself unrecognizable? I have been sent a hard <transChange type="added">message</transChange> for you:</verse>


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<verse num="7">Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: "Because I raised you from the midst of the people and I made you leader over my people Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="8">I tore the kingdom from the house of David and I gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do only <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> right in my eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have {completely disregarded}.<note>Literally "hurled behind your back"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Therefore, look, I am about to bring disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off {males}<note>Literally "those who urinate against a wall"</note> from Jeroboam, bond or free, in Israel. I will burn after the house of Jeroboam as one burns after the manure, until it is finished.</verse>


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<verse num="11">He who dies for Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will eat. He who dies in the open field, the birds from the heavens will eat, for Yahweh has spoken <transChange type="added">it</transChange>." '</verse>


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<verse num="12">As for you, get up. Go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.</verse>


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<verse num="13">All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> He will scatter them beyond the River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> because they have made their sacred poles <transChange type="added">which are</transChange> provoking Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin." </verse>


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<verse num="17">Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. <transChange type="added">As</transChange> she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died.</verse>


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<verse num="18">They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.</verse>


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<verse num="19">The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> Then Nadab his son became king in place of him. </verse>


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<verse num="21">Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Naamah the Ammonitess.</verse>


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<verse num="22">But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers<note>Or "ancestors"</note> did with their sins that they had committed.</verse>


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<verse num="23">They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.</verse>


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<verse num="24">There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="25">It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,</verse>


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<verse num="26">and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king's house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made,</verse>


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<verse num="27">so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and {entrusted them}<note>Literally "he assigned on the hand"</note> to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king's house.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Whenever the king came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard.</verse>


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<verse num="29">The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and he was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. The name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father.</verse>


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<verse num="4">For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;</verse>


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<verse num="5">because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn't turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. </verse>


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<verse num="7">The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Abijam 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. </verse>


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<verse num="9">In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Asa did right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his ancestor.<note>Or "father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> made.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Also, he had Maacah his mother removed from the office of queen mother, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> she had made a repulsive image for the Asherah. Asa also cut down her repulsive image and burned it 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="14">But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days.</verse>


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<verse num="15">He brought the holy objects of his father and his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> holy objects to the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and utensils. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah {to hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa}<note>Literally "to not give going and coming to Asa"</note> king of Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Asa took all of the silver and gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants; so King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="19">"<transChange type="added">Let there be</transChange> a covenant between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel that he may go up <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and he attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Beth-Maacah, and all of Kinnereth, in addition to all the land of Naphtali.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah.</verse>


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<verse num="23">The remainder of the acts of Asa, all of his achievements, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? But at the time of his old age, {he developed a foot disease}.<note>Literally "he became ill in his feet"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">Asa slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the city of David his ancestor;<note>Or "father"</note> Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="25">Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.</verse>


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<verse num="26">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. Now Nadab and all of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> laying siege to Gibbethon,</verse>


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<verse num="28">and Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa the king of Judah, and he reigned in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="29">It happened that as soon as he became king, he killed all of the house of Jeroboam. There was no one left of Jeroboam who breathed, until he had destroyed him according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite,</verse>


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<verse num="30">because of the sins of Jeroboam that he had committed and that he had caused Israel to commit <transChange type="added">and</transChange> because of his anger <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which he had provoked Yahweh the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Now the remainder of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? </verse>


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<verse num="33">In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah had become king over all of Israel; <transChange type="added">he lived</transChange> in Tirzah twenty-four years.</verse>


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<verse num="34">He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. </verse>


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<verse num="2">"Because I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins,</verse>


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<verse num="3">I am now <transChange type="added">about to</transChange> consume Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Those who die for Baasha in the city, the dogs will eat; those who die for him in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat." </verse>


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<verse num="5">The remainder of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his powerful deeds, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="6">Baasha slept with his ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Baasha and to his house by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh by provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam; and he destroyed him. </verse>


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<verse num="8">In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel for two years.</verse>


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<verse num="9">His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking <transChange type="added">himself</transChange> drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Zimri came and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="11">It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left {no males}<note>Literally "no one for him who urinated against a wall"</note> <transChange type="added">among</transChange> his kindred or <transChange type="added">any of</transChange> his friends. </verse>


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<verse num="12">So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet</verse>


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<verse num="13">because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.</verse>


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<verse num="14">The remainder of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? </verse>


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<verse num="15">In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the army was encamping against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines.</verse>


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<verse num="16">The encamping army heard that Zimri had conspired and moreover had killed the king,<note>That is, Elah</note> so they made Omri the commander of the army of Israel king over all Israel in the camp on that day.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Omri went up and all Israel with him from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died.</verse>


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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">This happened</transChange> because of his sin which he committed by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, by going the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did by causing Israel to sin.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The remainder of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he made, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? </verse>


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<verse num="21">At that time, the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people went after Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half went after Omri.</verse>


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<verse num="22">The people who went after Omri overcame the people who went after Tibni the son of Ginath, so that he died and Omri became king. </verse>


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<verse num="23">In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel <transChange type="added">for</transChange> twelve years. He reigned in Tirzah six years,</verse>


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<verse num="24">then bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, fortified the hill, and called the name of the city Samaria that he built after Shemer, the owner of the hill.</verse>


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<verse num="26">He went in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.</verse>


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<verse num="27">The remainder of the acts of Omri that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?</verse>


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<verse num="28">Omri slept with his ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and he was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son became king in his place. </verse>


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<verse num="29">Now Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.</verse>


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<verse num="30">But Ahab son of Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh more than all who were before him.</verse>


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<verse num="31">{If it wasn't enough that he went}<note>Literally "It happened that it was trivial his going"</note> after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he also took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Sidonians. He went and served Baal and bowed down to him.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And he built an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Ahab also made the sacred pole, and {he continued to provoke}<note>Literally "Ahab added to make to provoke"</note> Yahweh the God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel who were before him.</verse>


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<verse num="34">In his days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho; at the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his younger sibling, he set up its gates, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh"</note> the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years {except by my command}."<note>Literally "except at the word of my mouth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">"Go from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the Wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kerith {which faces the Jordan}.<note>Literally "on the face of the Jordan"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi,<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there."</verse>


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<verse num="5">So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Kerith {which faces the Jordan}.<note>Literally "on the face of the Jordan"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">The crows <transChange type="added">were</transChange> bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">It happened {after a while}<note>Literally "from the end of days"</note> that the wadi<note>A seasonal stream that is often dry</note> dried up, because there was no rain in the land. </verse>


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<verse num="9">"Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you."</verse>


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<verse num="10">So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, "Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink."</verse>


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<verse num="11">She went to fetch <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="12">She said, "{As Yahweh your God lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh your God"</note> surely I do not have a cake, {but only a handful of flour}<note>Literally "except that which fills a hand with flour"</note> in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward.</verse>


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<verse num="14">For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.'"</verse>


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<verse num="15">So she went and did according to the word of Elijah; then <transChange type="added">both</transChange> she and he ate with her household for many days.</verse>


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<verse num="16">The jar of flour was not emptied and the jug of olive oil did not run out, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Elijah. </verse>


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<verse num="17">It happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was very severe until there was no breath left in him.</verse>


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<verse num="18">She said to Elijah, "{What do you have against me},<note>Literally "What for me and for you"</note> O man of God, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then he said to her, "Give me your son." He took him from her lap and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and he laid him on his bed.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?"</verse>


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<verse num="21">He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him."</verse>


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<verse num="22">Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alive."</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now this I know, that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth <transChange type="added">is</transChange> truth." </verse>


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<verse num="1">It happened many days <transChange type="added">later</transChange> that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab so that I may give rain on the surface of the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="2">So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> severe in Samaria.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Ahab summoned Obadiah who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the house. (Now Obadiah was fearing Yahweh greatly.</verse>


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<verse num="4">It had happened that when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them {by fifties}<note>Literally "fifty men"</note> in the cave and sustained them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> food and water.)</verse>


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<verse num="5">Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis.<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals."</verse>


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<verse num="6">So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. </verse>


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<verse num="7">It happened that Obadiah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this you, my lord Elijah?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">He said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>. Go, say to your lord, 'Elijah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here.'"</verse>


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<verse num="9">He said, "How have I sinned that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?</verse>


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<verse num="10">{As Yahweh your God lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh your God"</note> surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. <transChange type="added">If</transChange> they would say, 'He is not here,' then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Now you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here." '</verse>


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<verse num="12">And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, <transChange type="added">even though</transChange> your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh? I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Yahweh {by fifties}<note>Literally "fifty fifty men"</note> in the cave, and I sustained them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> food and water.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here," ' and he will kill me."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Elijah said, "{As Yahweh of hosts lives},<note>Literally "The life of Yahweh of hosts"</note> before whom I stand, I will certainly show myself to him today." </verse>


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<verse num="17">When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this you <transChange type="added">who</transChange> throws Israel into confusion?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">He said, "I did not throw Israel into confusion; rather you and the house of your father <transChange type="added">have</transChange> by forsaking the commands of Yahweh when you went after the Baals!</verse>


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<verse num="19">So then, send <transChange type="added">word</transChange> and assemble all of Israel to me on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel." </verse>


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<verse num="20">So Ahab sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> among the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and he assembled the prophets to Mount Carmel.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Elijah approached to all the people and said, "How long <transChange type="added">will</transChange> you <transChange type="added">go</transChange> limping over two opinions? If Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God, go after him; but if Baal, go after him." But the people did not answer him a word.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone <transChange type="added">am</transChange> left a prophet of Yahweh, but the prophets of Baal <transChange type="added">are</transChange> four hundred and fifty men.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Let them give us two bulls, and let them choose for themselves one bull, cut him in pieces, and put it on the wood, but don't let them start a fire on it. I will prepare the other bull and set it on the wood, but I will put no fire <transChange type="added">on it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh, and it shall be that the god who answers by fire, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God."<note>Baal is known in Canaanite texts as being the god in control of lightning and fire</note> Then all the people answered and said, "The word <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good!" </verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire <transChange type="added">under it</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="26">So they took the bull that he allowed to them, prepared it, and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice and there was no answer, so they limped<note>That is, moved about the altar in a cultic dance step</note> about the altar which they had made.</verse>


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<verse num="27">It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or {is using the bathroom},<note>Literally "has backed off for himself"</note> or <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on a journey. Perhaps he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> asleep and must wake up!"</verse>


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<verse num="28">So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them.</verse>


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<verse num="29">It happened as noon passed, they raged until the <transChange type="added">time of</transChange> the evening offering, but there was no voice, there was no answer, and no <transChange type="added">one</transChange> paid attention. </verse>


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<verse num="30">Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me," so all the people came closer to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh <transChange type="added">that had been</transChange> destroyed.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of God came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."</verse>


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<verse num="32">With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench {which would have held}<note>Literally "as the house of"</note> about two seahs of seed, all around the altar.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the wood.<note>in the Hebrew Bible, 1 Kings 18:34 begins here</note> Then he said, "Fill four jars <transChange type="added">with</transChange> water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood."</verse>


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<verse num="34">He said, "Do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> again!" They did <transChange type="added">it</transChange> again. He said, "Do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> a third time!" So they did <transChange type="added">it</transChange> a third time.</verse>


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<verse num="35">The water went all around the altar, and the trench also was filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> water. </verse>


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<verse num="36">It happened at the offering of the <transChange type="added">evening</transChange> oblation, Elijah the prophet went near, and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; let it be known today that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God in Israel and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your servant and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I have done all of these things by your words.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Answer me, O Yahweh, answer me; that this people may know that you, O Yahweh, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> God and that you have turned their hearts back again."</verse>


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<verse num="38">Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the water which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the trench it licked up!</verse>


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<verse num="39">When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God! Yahweh, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God!"</verse>


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<verse num="40">Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; don't let any man of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Kishon and killed them there. </verse>


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<verse num="41">Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> the sound of the noise of rain."</verse>


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<verse num="42">So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah went to the top of Carmel, bent down to the earth, and put his face between his knees.</verse>


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<verse num="43">Then he said to his servant, "Please go <transChange type="added">and</transChange> look in the direction of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea." So he went up and looked; then he said, "There is nothing." Then he said, "Go back," seven times.</verse>


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<verse num="44">It happened that at the seventh time, he said, "Look, there is a small cloud, as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of a man, coming up from the sea." Then <transChange type="added">Elijah</transChange> said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Harness <transChange type="added">your horses</transChange> and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"</verse>


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<verse num="45">{In no time}<note>Literally "Until here and until here"</note> the heavens grew black <transChange type="added">with</transChange> clouds and wind, and there was heavy rain. Ahab rode and he went to Jezreel,</verse>


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<verse num="46">but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do <transChange type="added">to me</transChange>, and may they add <transChange type="added">to it</transChange>, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!"</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then he became afraid,<note>According to Greek, Syriac, and Latin manuscripts. Hebrew reads "he saw"</note> got up, and {fled for his life}.<note>Literally "he went to his life"</note> He came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die},<note>Literally "he asked his life to die"</note> and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals <transChange type="added">was</transChange> near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The angel of Yahweh appeared a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange> and touched him and said, "Get up, eat, for the journey is greater than you."</verse>


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<verse num="8">So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God. </verse>


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<verse num="9">He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the <transChange type="added">word</transChange> of Yahweh came to him and asked him, "{Elijah, what are you doing here}?"<note>Literally "What is for you here, Elijah"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.</verse>


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<verse num="11">He<note>That is, Yahweh</note> said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; <transChange type="added">but</transChange> Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> not in the wind. After the wind, <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> an earthquake; <transChange type="added">but</transChange> Yahweh was not in the earthquake.</verse>


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<verse num="12">After the earthquake <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a fire, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> the sound of a gentle whisper.</verse>


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<verse num="13">It happened at the moment Elijah heard, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice <transChange type="added">came</transChange> to him and said, "{Elijah, why are you here}?"<note>Literally "What is for you here, Elijah"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">He said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of Hosts, for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Yahweh said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael as king over Aram;</verse>


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<verse num="16">and Jehu son of Nimshi you shall anoint as king over Israel. You shall also anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-Meholah as prophet in your place.</verse>


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<verse num="17">It shall be that the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill.</verse>


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<verse num="18">I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all of the knees that have not bowed down to Baal and all of the mouths that have not kissed him." </verse>


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<verse num="19">So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> plowing <transChange type="added">with</transChange> twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go after you." Then he said, "Go, return, for what I have done to you?"</verse>


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<verse num="21">So he returned from after him, and he took a pair of oxen and slaughtered them, and with the yoke of the oxen he boiled the flesh and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and served him. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all of his army, and thirty-two kings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and laid siege against Samaria and fought with it.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: 'Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your best sons are mine.'"</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then the king of Israel answered and said, "As your word, my master the king; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> yours, and all that is mine <transChange type="added">is yours</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="5">The messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-Hadad, saying, 'I sent to you saying, "Your silver and gold are mine, and your women and your best sons you must give to me."</verse>


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<verse num="6">So <transChange type="added">at this</transChange> time tomorrow, I will send my servants to you that they might search your house and the houses of your servants. All the desire of your eyes {they will lay hands on}<note>Literally "they will put in their hands"</note> and take it away.'" </verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, "Please know and realize that this <transChange type="added">man is</transChange> seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my women, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not withhold <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from him."</verse>


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<verse num="8">All of the elders and all of the people said to him, "Do not listen and do not consent."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, "Say to my lord the king, 'All that you demanded from your servant at the first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.'" Then the messengers went and {made a report to him}.<note>Literally "returned him a word"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet."</verse>


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<verse num="11">The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, 'Let not him who girds on his armor boast as one who takes off his armor.'"</verse>


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<verse num="12">It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings <transChange type="added">were</transChange> drinking in the {tents}.<note>Literally "booths"</note> He said to his servants, "Get ready <transChange type="added">to attack</transChange>." So they got ready <transChange type="added">to attack</transChange> the city. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Suddenly a certain prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Have you seen all this great crowd? Behold, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving it into your hand today, that you may know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh.'"</verse>


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<verse num="14">Ahab said, "By whom?" And he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'By the servants of the commanders of the provinces.'" He asked, "Who will begin the battle?" And he said, "You."</verse>


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<verse num="15">So he mustered the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two. After them he mustered all of the army, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand. </verse>


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<verse num="16">They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad <transChange type="added">was</transChange> drinking <transChange type="added">himself</transChange> drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then the servants of the commanders of the provinces went out first, and Ben-Hadad sent, and they reported to him, saying, "Men have come out from Samaria."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive."</verse>


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<verse num="19">But these had come out from the city, the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> after them.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Each man killed his man, and the Arameans fled, so Israel pursued them, but Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with cavalry.</verse>


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<verse num="21">The king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and the chariots and defeated Aram with a great blow. </verse>


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<verse num="22">Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and he said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself; {consider well}<note>Literally "know and see"</note> what you should do, for the king of Aram is coming against you at the turn of the year." </verse>


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<verse num="23">The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their gods <transChange type="added">are</transChange> gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we.<note>Hebrew "he"</note> Let us fight with them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Do this thing: remove the kings each from his post, and put a governor in their place.</verse>


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<verse num="25">You must muster an army for yourself as the army {you have lost},<note>Literally "as the army which fell from with you"</note> and horses and chariots as the horses and chariots <transChange type="added">you lost</transChange>, then we will fight them in the plain. Surely we will be stronger than they." So he listened to their voice and did so. </verse>


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<verse num="26">It happened at the turning of the year that Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek for the war with Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="27">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had been mustered and provisioned, and they went to engage them. The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> encamped opposite them as two flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then the man of God approached, and he spoke to the king of Israel, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because Aram has said, "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys," ' I will give all this great crowd into your hand that you may know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="29">These encamped opposite for seven days, and it happened on the seventh day that {the battle began},<note>Literally "the battle drew near"</note> and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> killed the Arameans, one hundred thousand infantry in one day.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then those who remained fled to Aphek, to the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who had remained, so Ben-Hadad fled and went to the innermost rooms of the city. </verse>


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<verse num="31">Then his servants said to him, "Please now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps {he will let you live}."<note>Literally "he may let your life live"</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">So they tied sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads. Then they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" And he said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> my brother still alive?"</verse>


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<verse num="33">The men took this as a good omen and they quickly accepted <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as true from him, and they said, "Your brother Ben-Hadad <transChange type="added">lives</transChange>." So he said, "Go, get him." Ben-Hadad came out to him, and <transChange type="added">Ahab</transChange> pulled him up on the chariot.</verse>


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<verse num="34"><transChange type="added">Ben-Hadad</transChange> said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I shall return. You may set up streets with stalls for yourself in Damascus just as my father set up in Samaria." <transChange type="added">Then Ahab said</transChange>, "{On these terms}<note>Literally "In covenant"</note> I will let you go," So he made a covenant with him and let him go. </verse>


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<verse num="35">A certain man from the sons of the prophets said to his fellow countryman, "By the word of Yahweh, please strike me." But the man refused to strike him. </verse>


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<verse num="36">He said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you." When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please," so the man struck him sharply and wounded him.</verse>


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<verse num="38">Then the prophet went and {waited}<note>Literally "stood"</note> for the king along the road and disguised himself with a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> headband over his eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="39">As the king <transChange type="added">was</transChange> passing by, he called to the king and said, "Your servant went out in the thick of the battle, and suddenly a man turned and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man. If by any means he should be missed, it will be your life in his place, or you shall pay a talent of silver.'</verse>


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<verse num="40">It happened that your servant {was busy here and there},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> doing here and here"</note> and he {disappeared}."<note>Literally "and he was not"</note> Then the king said to him, "Your own judgment has been determined."</verse>


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<verse num="41">He quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from the prophets.</verse>


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<verse num="42">He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have let the man I devoted for destruction go from <transChange type="added">your</transChange> hand, your life shall be in place of his life and your people in place of his people.'"</verse>


