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@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ tribes, and the leaders of the families of the people of Israel, before himself
 \v 48 Suppose that they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who captured them, and suppose that they pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their ancestors, and toward the city that you chose, and toward the house that I have built for your name.
 
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-\v 49 Then listen to their prayer, their requests in the heavens, the place where you live, and help their cause.
+\v 49 Then from heaven, the place where you live, listen to their prayer and their request for help, and you will make matters right for them.
 \v 50 Forgive your people, who have sinned against you, and all their sins with which they have transgressed against your commands. Have compassion on them before their enemies who carried them captive, so that their enemies may also have compassion on your people.
 
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 \c 9
 \p
 \v 1 After Solomon had finished building the house of Yahweh and the king's palace, and after he had accomplished all that he wanted to do,
-\v 2 and Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
+\v 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
 
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 \v 3 And Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request that you have made before me. I have set apart this house, which you have built, to myself, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 \v 9 Others will answer, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, their God, who had brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and bowed down to them and worshiped them. That is why Yahweh has brought all this disaster on them.'"
 
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-\v 10 It came about at the end of twenty years, Solomon had finished building the two buildings, the temple of Yahweh and the king's palace.
-\v 11 Hiram, the king of Tyre, had furnished Solomon with cedar and cypress trees, and with gold; all that Solomon desired. So King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
+\v 10 It came about at the end of twenty years that Solomon had finished building the two buildings, the temple of Yahweh and the king's palace.
+\v 11 Now Hiram, the king of Tyre, had furnished Solomon with cedar and cypress trees, and with gold—all that Solomon desired—so King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
 
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 \v 12 Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they did not please him.