diff --git a/14-2CH.usfm b/14-2CH.usfm index 53e8d17c..94612d3a 100644 --- a/14-2CH.usfm +++ b/14-2CH.usfm @@ -1084,31 +1084,31 @@ \s5 \p \v 8 While Jehoram was ruling, the people in the region of Edom rebelled against the king of Judah and appointed their own king. -\v 9 So Jehoram and his officers and his men in chariots went to Edom. There, the army of Edom surrounded them. However, Jerhoram and his army attacked them and broke free from them; then they escaped during the night. +\v 9 So Jehoram and his officers and his men in chariots went to Edom. There, the army of Edom surrounded them. However, Jehoram and his army attacked them and broke free from them, then they escaped during the night. \v 10 But the king of Judah was never able to regain control of Edom, and Edom is still not controlled by Judah. The people in the city of Libnah between Judah and Philistia also rebelled against Judah. Those things happened because Jehoram stopped obeying Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors belonged to. \s5 \p -\v 11 On the hilltops in Judah he had also built high places, where they worshiped idols. He caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods. +\v 11 On the hilltops in Judah, he had also built high places where they worshiped idols. He caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods. \s5 \p \v 12 One day, Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah. Elijah had written this: -\li "This is what Yahweh, the God whom your ancestor King David worshiped, says: 'You have not done things that please me like your father Jehoshaphat did or what King Asa did. +\li "This is what Yahweh, the God whom your ancestor King David worshiped, says: 'You have not done things that please me as your father Jehoshaphat did or as King Asa did. \v 13 Instead, you have continually done the evil things that the kings of Israel have done. You have encouraged the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to stop worshiping Yahweh and to be unfaithful to him. And you have killed your brothers, men who were better than you are.' \li -\v 14 So now Yahweh is about to cause disasters to strike very severely the people in your kingdom and even your own children and your wives, and everything that you own. +\v 14 So now Yahweh is about to cause disasters to very severely strike the people in your kingdom and even your own children, your wives, and everything that you own. \v 15 And you yourself will have an intestinal disease that will continue to become worse, and you will suffer from it until you die." \s5 \p -\v 16 Then Yahweh stirred up some men from the Philistia people and some Arabs who lived near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where people from Ethiopia had settled, to come against Jehoram. +\v 16 Then Yahweh stirred up some men from the Philistine people and some Arabs who lived near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where people from Ethiopia had settled, to come against Jehoram. \v 17 Their army invaded Judah and took away from Jerusalem all the valuable things that they found in the king's palace; they also took away his sons and wives. His youngest son, Jehoahaz, was the only one of his sons whom they did not take away. \s5 \p \v 18 After that happened, Yahweh caused Jehoram to be afflicted with an intestinal disease that no doctor could cure. -\v 19 About two years later, while he had great pain, he died because of that disease. The people of Judah had made bonfires to honor his ancestors when they died, but they did not make a bonfire for Jehoram. +\v 19 About two years later, while he was in great pain, he died because of that disease. The people of Judah had made bonfires to honor his ancestors when they died, but they did not make a bonfire for Jehoram. \p \v 20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. No one regretted it when he died. His corpse was buried in the part of Jerusalem called the city of David, but he was not buried where the other kings of Judah had been buried. @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ \s5 \c 23 \p -\v 1 The next year, Jehoiada decided that it was necessary to do something. So he made an agreement with the army commanders of groups of one hundred soldiers: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zicri. +\v 1 The next year, Jehoiada decided that it was necessary to do something. So he made an agreement with the army commanders of groups of one hundred soldiers: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri. \v 2 They went throughout Judah and gathered the descendants of Levi and the leaders of Israelite families from all the cities. When they came to Jerusalem, \v 3 the whole group went to the temple and made an agreement with the young king there. Jehoiada said to them, "This is the son of the previous king of Judah. So he is the one who must rule, like Yahweh promised that the descendants of King David must do.