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 \v 7 Solomon appointed twelve men to govern the districts in Israel. They also were required to provide food for the king and all the others who lived and worked in the palace. Each man was required to provide from his own district the food for one month in each year.
 \v 8 Their names were:
-\q Ben-Hur, for the hill area of the tribe of Ephraim.
+\q Ben-Hur, for the hill area of the tribe of Ephraim;
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-\v 9 Ben-Deker, for the cities of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Bethhanan,
+\v 9 Ben-Deker, for the cities of Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Bethhanan;
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-\v 10 Ben-Hesed, for the cities of Arubboth and Sokoh and the area near the city of Hepher,
+\v 10 Ben-Hesed, for the cities of Arubboth and Sokoh and the area near the city of Hepher;
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-\v 11 Ben-Abinadab, who was married to Solomon's daughter Taphath, for all the district of Dor,
+\v 11 Ben-Abinadab, who was married to Solomon's daughter Taphath, for all the district of Dor;
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-\v 12 Ahilud's son Baana, for the cities of Taanach and Megiddo, for all the region near the city of Zarethan, and from the city of Beth Shan south of Jezreel as far as the cities of Abel Meholah and Jokmeam,
+\v 12 Ahilud's son Baana, for the cities of Taanach and Megiddo, for all the region near the city of Zarethan, and from the city of Beth Shan south of Jezreel as far as the cities of Abel Meholah and Jokmeam;
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-\v 13 Ben-Geber, for the city of Ramoth in the region of Gilead, for the villages in Gilead that belonged to Jair, who was a descendant of Manasseh, and for the area of Argob in the region of Bashan. There were sixty large cities in that region altogether, each city with a wall around it and bronze bars across the gates.
+\v 13 Ben-Geber, for the city of Ramoth in the region of Gilead, for the villages in Gilead that belonged to Jair who was a descendant of Manasseh, and for the area of Argob in the region of Bashan—there were sixty large cities in that region altogether, each city with a wall around it and bronze bars across the gates;
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 \v 14 Iddo's son Ahinadab, for the city of Mahanaim east of the Jordan River;
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-\v 15 Ahimaaz, who had married Solomon's daughter Basemath, for the territory of the tribe of Naphtali,
+\v 15 Ahimaaz, who had married Solomon's daughter Basemath, for the territory of the tribe of Naphtali;
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-\v 16 Hushai's son Baana, for the territory of the tribe of Asher and for the city of Aloth,
+\v 16 Hushai's son Baana, for the territory of the tribe of Asher and for the city of Aloth;
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-\v 17 Paruah's son Jehoshaphat, for the territory of the tribe of Issachar,
+\v 17 Paruah's son Jehoshaphat, for the territory of the tribe of Issachar;
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-\v 18 Ela's son Shimei, for the territory of the tribe of Benjamin,
+\v 18 Ela's son Shimei, for the territory of the tribe of Benjamin; and
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-\v 19 Uri's son Geber, for the region of Gilead, the land that Sihon the king of the Amor people formerly ruled, and Og who formerly ruled the region of Bashan.
+\v 19 Uri's son Geber, for the region of Gilead, which was the land formerly ruled by Sihon the king of the Amor people and Og the king of Bashan.
 \p In addition to all these, Solomon appointed one governor for the territory of the tribe of Judah.
 
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 \v 21 Solomon's kingdom extended from the Euphrates River in the northeast to the region of Philistia in the west and to the border of Egypt in the south. The conquered people in those areas paid taxes and were under Solomon's control all during his life.
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 \v 22 The people whom Solomon ruled were required to bring to Solomon every day thirty donkey-loads of fine flour and sixty donkey-loads of wheat,
-\v 23 ten head of cattle that had been raised in stalls, twenty head of cattle raised in pastures, one hundred sheep, grain-fed poultry—and wild game: deer, gazelle, and roebucks.
+\v 23 ten head of cattle that had been raised in stalls, twenty head of cattle raised in pastures, one hundred sheep, grain-fed poultry, and wild game: deer, gazelle, and roebucks.
 
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 \v 24 Solomon ruled over all the area west of the Euphrates River, from the city of Tiphsah in the northeast to the city of Gaza in the southwest. He ruled over all the kings in that area. There was peace between his government and the governments of nearby countries.
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-\v 29 God enabled Solomon to be extremely wise and to have great understanding. He enjoyed learning about a huge number of things.
-\v 30 He was wiser than all the wise men in the regions east of Israel, and all the wise men in Egypt.
+\v 29 God enabled Solomon to be extremely wise and to have great understanding. He enjoyed learning about a great number of things.
+\v 30 He was wiser than all the wise men in the regions east of Israel and all the wise men in Egypt.
 \v 31 Ethan from Ezrah and Heman and Kalkol and Darda and the sons of Mahol were considered to be very wise, but Solomon was wiser than all of them. People in all the nearby countries heard about Solomon.
 
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 \v 1 Hiram, the king of the city of Tyre, had always been a close friend of King David. When he heard that Solomon had been appointed to become the king after his father was no longer king, he sent messengers to Solomon.
 \v 2 Solomon gave those messengers this message to take back to Hiram:
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-\v 3 "You know that my father David led his soldiers to fight many wars against his enemies in the nearby countries. So he could not try to build a temple in which we could worship Yahweh our God, until after Yahweh enabled the Israelite army to defeat all his enemies.
+\v 3 "You know that my father David led his soldiers to fight many wars against his enemies in the nearby countries. So he could not try to build a temple in which we could worship Yahweh our God until after Yahweh enabled the Israelite army to defeat all his enemies.
 
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 \v 4 But now Yahweh our God has enabled us to have peace with all the surrounding countries. There is no danger that we will be attacked.
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 \v 10 So Hiram arranged for his workers to supply all the cedar and cypress logs that Solomon wanted.
 \v 11 Each year Solomon gave Hiram 4,400 cubic meters of wheat and 440 cubic meters of pure olive oil to feed his workers.
-\v 12 Yahweh enabled Solomon to be wise, just like he had promised. Solomon and Hiram made a treaty.
+\v 12 Yahweh enabled Solomon to be wise, just as he had promised. Solomon and Hiram made a treaty.
 
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 \v 13 King Solomon forced thirty thousand men from all over Israel to become his workers.
-\v 14 Adoniram was their boss. Solomon divided the men into three groups. Each month ten thousand of them went to Lebanon and worked for a month there, and then they came back home for two months.
+\v 14 Adoniram was their boss. Solomon divided the men into three groups. Each month, ten thousand of them went to Lebanon and worked for a month there, and then they came back home for two months.
 
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 \v 15 Solomon also forced eighty thousand men to cut stones in the hill country and seventy thousand men to haul the stones to Jerusalem.
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 \v 17 The king also commanded his workers to cut huge blocks of stones from the quarries and to smooth the sides of the stones. These huge stones were for the foundation of the temple.
-\v 18 Solomon's workers and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Gebal shaped the stones and prepared the timber to build the temple.
+\v 18 Solomon's workers and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Byblos shaped the stones and prepared the timber to build the temple.
 
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 \v 11 Then Yahweh said this to Solomon,
-\v 12 "I want to tell you about this temple that you are building. If you continually obey all my statutes and decrees and commands, I will do for you what I promised to your father David.
+\v 12 "I want to tell you about this temple that you are building. If you continually obey all of my statutes and decrees and commands, I will do for you what I promised to your father David.
 \v 13 I will live among the Israelite people, in this temple, and I will never abandon them."
 
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 \v 15 On the inside, they lined the rooms from the floor to the ceiling. They made the floor from cypress boards.
 
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-\v 16 Inside the back part of the temple they built an inner room, called the very holy place. It was nine meters long. All the walls of this room were lined with cedar boards.
+\v 16 Inside the back part of the temple, they built an inner room called the very holy place. It was nine meters long. All the walls of this room were lined with cedar boards.
 \v 17 In front of the very holy place was a room that was eighteen meters long.
 \v 18 The cedar boards on the walls inside the temple were decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers. The walls were completely covered with cedar boards, with the result that the stones of the walls behind them could not be seen.
 
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-\v 19 At the back of the temple they made the very holy place, in order to put the sacred chest there.
+\v 19 At the back of the temple, they made the very holy place in order to put the sacred chest there.
 \v 20 That room was nine meters long, nine meters wide, and nine meters high. They covered the walls with very thin sheets of pure gold. For burning incense they also made an altar of cedar boards.
 
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-\v 23 Inside the very holy place they made from olive tree wood large statues of two creatures with wings. Each one was four and one-half meters tall.
-\v 24-26 They each were the same size and had the same shape. They each had two wings which were spread out. Each wing was two and one-third meters long, with the result that the distance between the outer ends of the two wings was four and one-half meters across. The height of each cherub was four and one-half meters.
+\v 23 Inside the very holy place, from olive tree wood they made large statues of two creatures with wings. Each one was four and one-half meters tall.
+\v 24-26 They were both the same size and had the same shape. They each had two wings that were spread out. Each wing was two and one-third meters long, with the result that the distance between the outer ends of the two wings was four and one-half meters across. The height of each cherub was four and one-half meters.
 
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 \v 27 They put these statues next to each other in the very holy place so that the wing of the one touched the one wing of the other in the center of the room, and the outer wings touched the walls.
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-\v 31 They made a set of doors from olive tree wood, and placed them at the entrance to the very holy place. The lintel and doorposts had five indented sections.
+\v 31 They made a set of doors from olive tree wood and placed them at the entrance to the very holy place. The lintel and doorposts had five indented sections.
 \v 32 The doors were decorated by carving on them representations of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers. All of these things were covered with very thin sheets of gold.
 
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 \v 37 They laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh in the month of Ziv, in the fourth year that Solomon ruled.
-\v 38 In the eleventh year that he ruled, in the month of Bul, they finished building the temple and all of its parts, doing exactly what Solomon's told them to do. It required seven years to build it.
+\v 38 In the eleventh year that he ruled, in the month of Bul, they finished building the temple and all of its parts, doing exactly what Solomon told them to do. It required seven years to build it.
 
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