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 \v 5 So Elijah went to meet the messengers and told that to them, and they returned to the king instead of going to Ekron. The king asked them, "Why have you come back so quickly?"
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-\v 6 They replied, "A man came to meet us and said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that Yahweh says, "'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you wish to ask Baal-Zebub whether you will recover'? Go tell the king that he will not recover from being injured; instead, he will surely die."'"
+\v 6 They replied, "A man came to meet us and said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that Yahweh says, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you wish to ask Baal-Zebub whether you will recover? Go tell the king that he will not recover from being injured; instead, he will surely die."'"
 
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-\v 7 The king said to them, "The man who came to meet you and told that to you, what did he look like?"
+\v 7 The king said to them, "The man who came to meet you and told that to you—what did he look like?"
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 \v 8 They replied, "He was wearing a cloak made from camel hair and had a wide leather belt around his waist." The king exclaimed, "That must be Elijah!"
 
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 \v 16 When Elijah arrived, he said to the king, "This is what Yahweh says: 'You sent messengers to go to Ekron to ask Baal-Zebub, their god, whether you would recover. You acted as though there is no God in Israel to consult. So you will not recover from being injured; instead, you are going to die!'"
 
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-\v 17 So Ahaziah died, which is what Yahweh told Elijah would happen. Ahaziah's younger brother Joram became the new king, at the same time that Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, had been ruling Judah for almost two years. Ahaziah's brother became the king because Ahaziah had no son to become the king.
+\v 17 So Ahaziah died, which is what Yahweh told Elijah would happen. Ahaziah's younger brother Joram became the new king, at the same time that Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat had been ruling Judah for almost two years. Ahaziah's brother became the king because Ahaziah had no son to become the king.
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-\v 18 If you want to know about all the other things that Ahaziah did, they are written in Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel.
+\v 18 If you want to know about all the other things that Ahaziah did, they are written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.
 
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 \v 9 When they came to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, "What do you want me to do for you before I am taken away?"
 \p Elisha replied, "I want to receive twice as much of your power as the other prophets have."
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-\v 10 Elijah replied, "You have asked for something which is difficult for me to make happen. But if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get what you are requesting. But if you do not see me, then you will not get it."
+\v 10 Elijah replied, "You have asked for something that is difficult for me to make happen. But if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get what you are requesting. But if you do not see me, then you will not get it."
 
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-\v 11 As they were walking and talking, suddenly a chariot surrounded by fire pulled by horses surrounded by fire, appeared. The chariot driver drove the chariot between Elijah and Elisha and separated them. Then Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind.
+\v 11 As they were walking and talking, suddenly a chariot surrounded by fire, pulled by horses surrounded by fire, appeared. The chariot driver drove the chariot between Elijah and Elisha and separated them. Then Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind.
 \v 12 Elisha saw it. He cried out, "My father! My father! The Israelite chariots and their drivers have taken my master away!" They disappeared into the sky, and Elisha never saw Elijah again. Then Elisha tore his own robe into two pieces to show that he was deeply saddened.
 
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 \v 13 Elijah's cloak had fallen off when he was taken away, so Elisha picked it up and returned to the bank of the Jordan River.
-\v 14 He rolled up the cloak and struck the water with it, and cried out, "Is Yahweh, the God of Elijah, here with me, too?" Then the water separated, and a path opened up for him, and Elisha went across.
+\v 14 He rolled up the cloak and struck the water with it and cried out, "Is Yahweh, the God of Elijah, here with me, too?" Then the water separated, and a path opened up for him, and Elisha went across.
 
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 \v 17 But they continued to urge him. Finally he was tired of saying "No," and he said, "Very well, send them." So fifty men searched for three days, but they did not find Elijah.
-\v 18 They returned to Jericho, and Elisha was still there. He said to them, "I told you that you should not go, because you would not find him!"
+\v 18 They returned to Jericho, and Elisha was still there. He said to them, "I told you that you should not go because you would not find him!"
 
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 \v 21 Then Elisha went out to the spring from which the people in the town got water. He threw the salt into the spring. Then he said, "This is what Yahweh says: 'I have made this water good. No one will die anymore because of bad water, and the land will grow fruitful crops.'"
-\v 22 And the water became pure, just as Elisha said it would. Since that time it has always remained pure.
+\v 22 And the water became pure, just as Elisha said it would. Since that time, it has always remained pure.
 
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 \v 1 After Jehoshaphat had been ruling Judah for almost eighteen years, Ahab's son Joram became the king of Israel. He ruled in the city of Samaria for twelve years.
 \v 2 He did things that Yahweh said were evil, but he did not do as much evil as his father and mother had done, and he got rid of the stone pillar for worshiping Baal that his father had made.
-\v 3 But he committed the sins that King Jeroboam had committed and which induced the Israelite people to sin, and he did not stop committing the same sins.
+\v 3 But he committed the sins that King Jeroboam had committed and that induced the Israelite people to sin, and he did not stop committing the same sins.
 
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-\v 4 Mesha, the king of Moab, raised sheep. Every year he was forced to give 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 rams to the king of Israel, because his kingdom was controlled by the king of Israel.
+\v 4 Mesha, the king of Moab, raised sheep. Every year he was forced to give 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 rams to the king of Israel because his kingdom was controlled by the king of Israel.
 \v 5 But after King Ahab died, Mesha rebelled against the king of Israel.
 \v 6 So King Joram left Samaria to call together soldiers from across all Israel to go to war.
 
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 \v 11 Jehoshaphat said, "Is there a prophet here who can ask Yahweh for us what we should do?"
-\p One of Joram's army officers said, "Elisha son of Shaphat, is here. He was Elijah's assistant."
+\p One of Joram's army officers said, "Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He was Elijah's assistant."
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-\v 12 Jehoshaphat said, "It will be good to ask him, because he speaks what Yahweh tells him to say."
+\v 12 Jehoshaphat said, "It will be good to ask him because he speaks what Yahweh tells him to say."
 \p So those three kings went to Elisha.
 
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-\v 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why do you come to me ? Go and ask those prophets that your father and mother consulted!"
-\p But Joram replied, "No, we want you to ask Yahweh, because it seems that Yahweh has brought us three kings together in order to allow the army of Moab to capture us."
+\v 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why do you come to me? Go and ask those prophets that your father and mother consulted!"
+\p But Joram replied, "No, we want you to ask Yahweh because it seems that Yahweh has brought us three kings together to allow the army of Moab to capture us."
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 \v 14 Elisha replied, "I serve Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels in heaven. As surely as he lives, if I did not respect Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not even think about doing anything to help you.
 
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 \v 18 That is not difficult for Yahweh to do. But He will do more than that. He will also enable you to defeat the army of Moab.
-\v 19 You will conquer all their beautiful cities, cities that have high walls around them. You must cut down all their fruit trees, stop water from flowing from their springs, and ruin their fertile fields by covering them with rocks."
+\v 19 You will conquer all their beautiful cities, cities that have high walls around them. You must cut down all of their fruit trees, stop water from flowing from their springs, and ruin their fertile fields by covering them with rocks."
 
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