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 \v 2 She came with a large group of wealthy people, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, precious gems, and much gold. When she met Solomon, she asked him questions about all the things in which she was interested.
 
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-\v 3 Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
-\v 4 The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace,
-\v 5 she saw the food that was served on his table every day, she saw where his officials lived, their uniforms, the servants who served the food and wine, and the sacrifices that he took to the temple to be offered. She was extremely amazed.
+\v 3 Solomon answered all of her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
+\v 4 The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
+\v 5 she saw the food that was served on his table every day; and she saw where his officials lived, their uniforms, the servants who served the food and wine, and the sacrifices that he took to the temple to be offered. She was extremely amazed.
 
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 \v 7 But I did not believe it was true until I came here and saw it myself. But really, what they told me is only half of what they could have told me about you. You are extremely wise and rich, more than what people told me.
 
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-\v 8 How fortunate are your wives! And how fortunate are your servants, who are waiting to serve you, who are listening to the wise things that you say!
-\v 9 Praise Yahweh, your God, who has shown that he is pleased with you by causing you to become the king of Israel! God has always loved the Israelite people, and therefore he has appointed you to be their king, in order that you will rule them fairly and righteously."
+\v 8 How fortunate are your wives! And how fortunate are your servants who are waiting to serve you, who are listening to the wise things that you say!
+\v 9 Praise Yahweh, your God, who has shown that he is pleased with you by causing you to become the king of Israel! God has always loved the Israelite people, and therefore he has appointed you to be their king so that you will rule them fairly and righteously."
 
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 \v 14 Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of twenty-two thousand kilograms of gold.
-\v 15 That was in addition to the taxes paid to him by the merchants and traders, and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of the districts in Israel.
+\v 15 That was in addition to the taxes paid to him by the merchants and traders and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of the districts in Israel.
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 \v 18 His workers also made for him a large throne. Part of it was covered with ivory, and part of it was covered with very fine gold.
-\v 19-20 There were six steps in front of the throne. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of each step. So altogether there were twelve statues of lions. The back of the throne was rounded at the top. At each side of the throne there was an armrest and alongside each armrest there was a small statue of a lion. No throne like that had ever existed in any other kingdom.
+\v 19-20 There were six steps in front of the throne. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of each step. So altogether there were twelve statues of lions. The back of the throne was rounded at the top. At each side of the throne there was an armrest, and alongside each armrest there was a small statue of a lion. No throne like that had ever existed in any other kingdom.
 
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 \v 21 All of Solomon's cups were made of gold, and all the various dishes in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were made of gold. They did not make things from silver, because during the years that Solomon ruled silver was not considered to be valuable.
-\v 22 The king had a fleet of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned from the places to which they had sailed bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons.
+\v 22 The king had a fleet of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years, the ships returned from the places to which they had sailed, bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons.
 
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 \v 23 King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
 \v 24 People from all over the world wanted to come and listen to the wise things that Solomon said, things that God had put into his mind.
-\v 25 All the people who came to him brought presents. They brought things made from silver or gold, or robes, or weapons, or spices, or horses, or mules. The people continued to do this every year.
+\v 25 All the people who came to him brought presents. They brought things made from silver or gold, or robes, weapons, spices, horses, or mules. The people continued to do this every year.
 
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-\v 1 King Solomon married many foreign women. First he married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also married women from the Heth people and from the Moab, Ammon, and Edom peoples, and from the city of Sidon.
-\v 2 He married them even though Yahweh had commanded the Israelite people saying, "Do not marry people from those areas, because if you do that, they will surely persuade you to worship the gods that they worship!"
+\v 1 King Solomon married many foreign women. First he married the daughter of the king of Egypt. He also married women from the Heth people and from the Moab, Ammon, and Edom peoples and from the city of Sidon.
+\v 2 He married them even though Yahweh had commanded the Israelite people, saying, "Do not marry people from those areas, because if you do that, they will surely persuade you to worship the gods that they worship!"
 
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 \v 3 Solomon married seven hundred women who were kings' daughters. He also had three hundred wives who were his slaves. And his wives caused him to stop worshiping God.
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-\v 7 On the hill to the east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god that the Moab people worshiped, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people worshiped.
-\v 8 He also built places where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to the gods from their own countries.
+\v 7 On the hill to the east of Jerusalem, he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god that the Moab people worshiped, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god that the Ammon people worshiped.
+\v 8 He also built places where all of his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to the gods from their own countries.
 
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-\v 9-10 Even though Yahweh, the God whom the Israelites worshiped, had appeared to Solomon two times, and had commanded him to not worship foreign gods, Solomon refused to obey Yahweh. So Yahweh was angry with Solomon.
+\v 9-10 Even though Yahweh, the God whom the Israelites worshiped, had appeared to Solomon two times and had commanded him to not worship foreign gods, Solomon refused to obey Yahweh. So Yahweh was angry with Solomon.
 
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 \v 11 Yahweh said to him, "You have chosen to disobey the covenant that I made with you and to disobey what I commanded you. So I am certainly not going to allow you to rule all of your kingdom. I am going to allow one of your officials to rule.
-\v 12 But because of what I promised your father David, I will allow you to rule all your kingdom while you are still living. After you die, I will not allow your son to rule the whole kingdom.
-\v 13 But I will not stop him from ruling some of the kingdom. I will allow him to rule one tribe, because of what I promised to David, who served me well, and because I want David's descendants to rule in Jerusalem, where my temple is located."
+\v 12 But because of what I promised your father David, I will allow you to rule all of your kingdom while you are still living. After you die, I will not allow your son to rule the whole kingdom.
+\v 13 But I will not stop him from ruling some of the kingdom. I will allow him to rule one tribe because of what I promised to David, who served me well, and because I want David's descendants to rule in Jerusalem where my temple is located."
 
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-\v 14 Yahweh caused Hadad, from the family of the kings in the Edom people, to rebel against Solomon.
+\v 14 Yahweh caused Hadad, from the family of the kings in the Edomite people, to rebel against Solomon.
 \v 15-16 What happened was that previously, when David's army had conquered Edom, his army commander Joab had gone there to help bury the Israelite soldiers who had been killed in the battle. Joab and his army remained in Edom for six months, and during that time they killed all the males of that area.
 \v 17 Hadad was a young child at that time, and he had escaped to Egypt, along with some of his father's servants from Edom.
 
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-\v 18 They went to the region of Midian, and then they went to the desert area at Paran. Some other men joined them there. Then they all traveled to Egypt and went to the king of Egypt. The king gave Hadad some land and ordered his servants to give him some food regularly.
-\v 19 The king liked Hadad. As a result he gave him the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad's wife.
+\v 18 They went to the region of Midian, and then they went to the desert area at Paran. Some other men joined them there. Then they all traveled to Egypt and went to the king of Egypt. The king gave Hadad some land and ordered his servants to regularly give him some food.
+\v 19 The king liked Hadad. As a result, he gave him the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad's wife.
 
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-\v 20 Later Hadad's wife gave birth to a son named Genubath. The sister of Tahpenes raised him in the palace, where he lived with the king's sons.
+\v 20 Later, Hadad's wife gave birth to a son named Genubath. The sister of Tahpenes raised him in the palace, where he lived with the king's sons.
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-\v 21 While Hadad was in Egypt, he heard that David had died, and that Joab, the commander of David's army, was also dead. So he said to the king of Egypt, "Please allow me to return to my own country."
+\v 21 While Hadad was in Egypt, he heard that David had died and that Joab, the commander of David's army, was also dead. So he said to the king of Egypt, "Please allow me to return to my own country."
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 \v 22 But the king said to him, "Why do you want to go back to your country? Is there something that you lack that you want me to give to you?" Hadad replied, "No, but please just allow me to go." So the king allowed him to leave, and he returned to his own country and became the king of Edom.
 
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-\v 23 God also caused another man named Rezon son of Eliada, to rebel against Solomon. Rezon had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of the area of Zobah, north of Damascus.
-\v 24 Rezon then became the leader of a group of outlaws. That happened after David's army had defeated Hadadezer and had also killed all his soldiers. Rezon and his men went to Damascus and started to live there, and the people there appointed him to be their king.
-\v 25 All during the time that Solomon was alive, while Rezon was ruling not only Damascus but all of Aram, he was an enemy of Israel and caused trouble for Israel like Hadad did.
+\v 23 God also caused another man named Rezon son of Eliada to rebel against Solomon. Rezon had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of the area of Zobah, north of Damascus.
+\v 24 Rezon then became the leader of a group of outlaws. That happened after David's army had defeated Hadadezer and had also killed all of his soldiers. Rezon and his men went to Damascus and started to live there, and the people there appointed him to be their king.
+\v 25 All during the time that Solomon was alive, while Rezon was ruling not only Damascus but all of Aram, he was an enemy of Israel and caused trouble for Israel as Hadad did.
 
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 \v 28 Jeroboam was a very capable young man. So, when Solomon saw that he worked very hard, he appointed him to supervise all the men who were forced to work in the areas where the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim live.
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-\v 29 One day when Jeroboam was walking alone along the road outside of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from the city of Shiloh met him. Ahijah was wearing a new robe,
+\v 29 One day, when Jeroboam was walking alone along the road outside of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from the city of Shiloh met him. Ahijah was wearing a new robe,
 \v 30 which he took off and tore into twelve pieces.
 
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 \v 31 He said to Jeroboam, "Take ten of these pieces for yourself, because Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, says to you, 'I am going to tear the kingdom from Solomon, and I am going to enable you to become the ruler of ten of the tribes of Israel.
-\v 32 Solomon's descendants will still rule one tribe, because of what I promised David, a man who served me very well, and because of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen from all the cities in Israel to be the city where my people will worship me.
-\v 33 I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has been worshiping Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worship, Chemosh, the god that the Moab people worships, and Molech, the god that the Ammon people worships. He has not conducted his life as I wanted him to. He has not obeyed my statutes and decrees, as his father David did.
+\v 32 Solomon's descendants will still rule one tribe because of what I promised David, a man who served me very well, and because of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen from all the cities in Israel to be the city where my people will worship me.
+\v 33 I am going to do this because Solomon has rejected me and has been worshiping Asherah, the goddess that the people of Sidon worship; Chemosh, the god that the Moabite people worship; and Molech, the god that the Ammonite people worship. He has not conducted his life as I wanted him to. He has not obeyed my statutes and decrees as his father David did.
 
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-\v 34 But I will not take the entire kingdom away from him. I will enable him to rule Judah all during the years that he is alive. I will do that because of what I promised to do for David, whom I chose to be the king, and who served me well, and who always obeyed my commandments and laws.
+\v 34 But I will not take the entire kingdom away from him. I will enable him to rule Judah all during the years that he is alive. I will do that because of what I promised to do for David, whom I chose to be the king and who served me well and who always obeyed my commandments and laws.
 \v 35 But I will take the other ten tribes of his kingdom and give them to you to rule.
-\v 36 I will allow Solomon's son to rule one tribe, in order that descendants of David will always rule in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to be the place where my people worship me.
+\v 36 I will allow Solomon's son to rule one tribe so that descendants of David will always rule in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to be the place where my people worship me.
 
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 \v 37 I will enable you to become the king of Israel, and you will rule over all the territory that you want to.
-\v 38 If you obey all that I command you to do, and conduct your life as I want you to, and if you do what I say is right by obeying my laws and commandments like David did, I will help you. I will make sure that your descendants will rule after you die, like I promised to do for David.
+\v 38 If you obey all that I command you to do and conduct your life as I want you to, and if you do what I say is right by obeying my laws and commandments like David did, I will help you. I will make sure that your descendants will rule after you die, like I promised to do for David.
 \v 39 Because of Solomon's sins, I will punish David's descendants, but I will not continue to punish them forever.'"
 
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-\v 41 A record of all the other things that Solomon did, and all the wise things that he said, was written in the book of the events of Solomon.
+\v 41 A record of all the other things that Solomon did and all the wise things that he said was written in the book of the events of Solomon.
 \v 42 He was king in Jerusalem and ruled over all of Israel for forty years.
 \v 43 Then Solomon died and was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David. Then his son Rehoboam became the king.
 
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 \v 14 He told them what the younger men had advised. He said, "My father put heavy burdens of work on you, but I will put heavier burdens on you. It was as though he beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!"
 
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-\v 15 So the king did not pay any attention to the Israelite leaders. Now all this happened in order that what Yahweh wanted would occur, what he had told the prophet Ahijah about Jeroboam becoming king of the ten tribes.
+\v 15 So the king did not pay any attention to the Israelite leaders. Now all this happened so that what Yahweh wanted would occur—what he had told the prophet Ahijah about Jeroboam becoming king of the ten tribes.
 
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 \q1 You people of Israel, let us go home!
 \q2 As for this descendant of David, he can rule his own tribe!"
 \p So the Israelite leaders returned to their homes.
-\v 17 And after that, the only Israelite people whom Rehoboam ruled over were those who lived in the territory of the tribe of Judah.
+\v 17 And after that, the only Israelite people over whom Rehoboam ruled were those who lived in the territory of the tribe of Judah.
 
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-\v 21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted them to fight against the northern tribes of Israel and defeat them, in order that he could rule all the tribes of his kingdom again.
+\v 21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted them to fight against the northern tribes of Israel and defeat them so that he could rule all the tribes of his kingdom again.
 
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 \v 22 But God spoke to the prophet Shemaiah and said this to him:
-\v 23 "Go and tell this to Solomon's son Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the people from the northern tribe who live in Judah:
+\v 23 "Go and tell this to Solomon's son Rehoboam, who is the king of Judah, and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the people from the northern tribe who live in Judah:
 \v 24 'Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against your own relatives, the people of Israel. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.'" So Shemaiah went and told that to them, and they all listened what Yahweh had commanded them to do, and they went home.
 
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 \v 25 Then Jeroboam's workers built walls around the city of Shechem in the hill country where the descendants of Ephraim lived, and he ruled from there for a while. He and his workers then left there and went to the city of Peniel, and they built walls around that city.
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-\v 26-27 Then Jeroboam said to himself, "If my people continue to go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple there, soon they will again become loyal to Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and they will kill me."
+\v 26-27 Then Jeroboam said to himself, "If my people continue to go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple there, soon they will again become loyal to Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they will kill me."
 
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-\v 28 So he consulted his advisors, and then he did what they suggested. He told his workers to make gold statues of two calves. Then he said to the people, "You have been going to Jerusalem to worship for a long time. You are making too big an effort to keep going there. You people of Israel, look! These statues are the gods that brought our ancestors up from Egypt! So you can worship these, here!"
+\v 28 So he consulted his advisors, and then he did what they suggested. He told his workers to make gold statues of two calves. Then he said to the people, "You have been going to Jerusalem to worship for a long time. You are making too big an effort to keep going there. You people of Israel, look! These statues are the gods that brought our ancestors up from Egypt! So you can worship these here!"
 \v 29 He told his workers to place one of the statues in the city of Bethel in the south and one in the city of Dan in the north.
 \v 30 So what Jeroboam did caused the people to sin. Some of them went and worshiped the calf at Bethel, and others went and worshiped the other calf at Dan.