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 \v 1 Elah's son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
-\v 2 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done—the ones who had ruled Israel previously.
+\v 2 He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the kings of Israel had done who had ruled Israel before he did.
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 \v 3 The army of King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated the army of King Hoshea. As a result, the Israelites were forced to pay much tribute to Assyria each year.
 
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-\v 4 But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, asking if his army could help the Israelites fight against Assyria. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute that he had been paying Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
+\v 4 But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So king of Egypt, asking if his army could help the Israelites fight against Assyria. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute that he had been paying Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
 \v 5 Then he brought the army of Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army besieged the city of Samaria for three years.
 \v 6 Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria forcefully entered the city and captured the people. They took the Israelite people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in the city of Halah. They forced others to live near the Habor River in the district of Gozan. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people lived.
 
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 \v 8 They imitated the things that the pagan peoples around them practiced. Those were the very peoples that Yahweh had driven out as the Israelites occupied their land. The people of Israel also did the evil things that most of the kings of Israel showed them.
 
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-\v 9 The Israelite people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built places to worship their idols on the hills around all their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
-\v 10 They set up stone pillars to honor gods, and poles to worship the goddess Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every big tree.
+\v 9 The Israelite people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built places to worship their idols on the hills around all of their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
+\v 10 They set up stone pillars to honor gods and poles to worship the goddess Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every big tree.
 
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-\v 11 The Israelites burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just like the peoples who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had driven out from the land. The Israelites did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
+\v 11 The Israelites burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just as the peoples who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had driven out from the land. The Israelites did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
 \v 12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
 
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 \v 14 But the Israelite people would not pay attention. They were stubborn, just as their ancestors were. Just as their ancestors did, they refused to trust in Yahweh their God.
-\v 15 They rejected Yahweh's laws and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh's warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the behavior of the peoples that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
+\v 15 They rejected Yahweh's laws and the covenant that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh's warnings. They worshiped worthless idols, and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the behavior of the peoples that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
 
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-\v 16 The Israelite people disobeyed all of Yahweh's commands. They made two metal calves to worship. They set up two poles to worship the goddess Asherah, and they worshiped the god Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
+\v 16 The Israelite people disobeyed all of Yahweh's commands. They made two metal calves to worship. They set up two poles to worship the goddess Asherah, and they worshiped the god Baal and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
 \v 17 They also burned their own sons and daughters to be sacrifices to those gods. They went to fortune tellers and they practiced sorcery. They continually chose to do all kinds of evil things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
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 \v 18 So because Yahweh was very angry with the Israelite people, he allowed their enemies to take them away from their country. Only the people of the tribe of Judah were left in the land.
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-\v 21 Earlier, when Yahweh had forced the ten tribes of Israel away from the rule of David's descendants, those tribes had chosen Jeroboam son of Nebat, to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship idols instead. He induced them to commit great sins.
+\v 21 Earlier, when Yahweh had forced the ten tribes of Israel away from the rule of David's descendants, those tribes had chosen Jeroboam son of Nebat to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship idols instead. He induced them to commit great sins.
 \v 22 And the Israelite people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
 \v 23 so finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israelite people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they are still there.
 
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-\v 24 The king of Assyria ordered his soldiers to take groups of people from the cities of Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim to the region of Samaria, and to resettle them in the cities there, to take the place of the Israelites who lived there previously. Those people took control over Samaria and lived in the cities of Samaria.
+\v 24 The king of Assyria ordered his soldiers to take groups of people from the cities of Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim to the region of Samaria and to resettle them in the cities there, to take the place of the Israelites who lived there previously. Those people took control over Samaria and lived in the cities of Samaria.
 \v 25 But those people who came from other countries did not worship Yahweh when they first arrived in Samaria. So Yahweh sent lions to kill some of them.
-\v 26 Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, "We people who have resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know how to worship the God that the Israelites worshiped in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us, because we have not worshiped him correctly."
+\v 26 Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, "We people who have resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know how to worship the God that the Israelites worshiped in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us because we have not worshiped him correctly."
 
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 \v 31 The people from Avva made idols to represent their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim sacrificed their own children. They completely burned them on altars to be offerings to their gods Adrammelek and Anammelek.
 
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-\v 32 But those people also worshiped Yahweh, but they also appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the places where idols were worshiped on the hills, and these priests could would offer sacrifices for them upon the high places.
+\v 32 Those people also worshiped Yahweh, but they also appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the places where idols were worshiped on the hills, and those priests would offer sacrifices for them upon the high places.
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-\v 33 So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as their people living in their home countries did.
+\v 33 So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods just as their people living in their home countries did.
 
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 \v 34 These people in Samaria still keep their old customs. They really do not worship Yahweh, and they do not obey all the laws and decrees that Yahweh gave to the descendants of Jacob, to whom he gave the new name Israel.
-\v 35 Yahweh had previously made an covenant with the ancestors of Israel, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
+\v 35 Yahweh had previously made a covenant with the ancestors of Israel, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
 
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 \v 36 He had said to them, "You must have a sincere respect for me, Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Egypt with my very great power. I am the one whom you must bow down to honor, and I am the one to whom you must offer sacrifices.
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 \v 38 And you must not forget the covenant that I made with your ancestors. You must not fear or respect other gods.
 
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-\v 39 Instead, you must have a sincere respect for me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power of all your enemies."
+\v 39 Instead, you must have a sincere respect for me, Yahweh your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power of all of your enemies."
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-\v 40 But, the Israelites refused to pay attention to what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
-\v 41 So, those people worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
+\v 40 But the Israelites refused to pay attention to what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to live by their old customs.
+\v 41 So those people worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
 
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-\v 1 After King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost three years, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, began to rule Judah.
-\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah and he ruled from Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of a man whose name was Zechariah.
-\v 3 Hezekiah did things that Yahweh said are right, like his ancestor King David had done.
+\v 1 After King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost three years, Hezekiah son of Ahaz began to rule Judah.
+\v 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became the king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of a man whose name was Zechariah.
+\v 3 Hezekiah did things that Yahweh said were right, as his ancestor King David had done.
 
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 \v 4 He destroyed the places where people worshiped Yahweh, and he broke into pieces the poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah. He also broke into pieces the bronze replica of a snake that Moses had made. He did that because the people had named it Nehushtan, and they were burning incense in front of it to honor it.
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 \v 6 He remained loyal to Yahweh and never disobeyed him. He carefully obeyed all the commandments that Yahweh had given to Moses.
-\v 7 Yahweh always helped Hezekiah. He was successful in everything he did. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to do what the king of Assyria wanted him to do
+\v 7 Yahweh always helped Hezekiah. He was successful in everything he did. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to do what the king of Assyria wanted him to do.
 \v 8 His army defeated the soldiers of Philistia as far south as the city of Gaza and the nearby villages. They conquered the entire area, from the smallest village with only a watchtower to the largest cities surrounded by walls.
 
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 \v 9 After King Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost four years, and when King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost seven years, the army of King Shalmaneser of Assyria invaded Israel and surrounded the city of Samaria.
-\v 10 In the third year they captured the city. That was when Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost six years, and when Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost nine years.
+\v 10 In the third year they captured the city. That was when Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost six years and when Hoshea had been ruling Israel for almost nine years.
 
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 \v 11 The king of Assyria commanded that the people of Israel be taken to Assyria. Some of them were taken to the city of Halah, some were taken to a place near the Habor River in the region of Gozan, and some were taken to cities where the Mede people live.
-\v 12 That happened because the Israelites did not obey Yahweh their God. They had disobeyed the covenant that Yahweh had made with their ancestors, and all the laws that Moses, the man who served Yahweh very well, had told them to obey. They would not obey those laws. They would not even listen to them.
+\v 12 That happened because the Israelites did not obey Yahweh their God. They had disobeyed the covenant that Yahweh had made with their ancestors and all the laws that Moses, the man who served Yahweh very well, had told them to obey. They would not obey those laws. They would not even listen to them.
 
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 \v 13 After King Hezekiah had been ruling Judah for almost fourteen years, the army of King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the cities in Judah that had walls around them. They did not capture Jerusalem, but they captured all the other cities.
-\v 14 King Hezekiah sent a message to Sennacherib, while Sennacherib was in the city of Lachish, saying, "What I have done was wrong. Please tell your soldiers to stop attacking us. If you do that, I will pay you whatever you tell me to." So the king of Assyria said that Hezekiah must pay to him ten thousand kilograms of silver and one thousand kilograms  of gold.
+\v 14 King Hezekiah sent a message to Sennacherib while Sennacherib was in the city of Lachish, saying, "What I have done was wrong. Please tell your soldiers to stop attacking us. If you do that, I will pay you whatever you tell me to." So the king of Assyria said that Hezekiah must pay to him ten thousand kilograms of silver and one thousand kilograms of gold.
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 \v 15 So Hezekiah gave to him all the silver that was in the temple and that was stored in his palace.
 
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 \v 16 Hezekiah's men also stripped the gold from the doors of the temple and the gold that he himself had put on the doorposts, and he sent all that gold to the king of Assyria.
 \v 17 But the king of Assyria sent a large army with some of his important officials from the city of Lachish to persuade King Hezekiah to surrender. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they stood alongside the aqueduct in which water flows from the upper pool into Jerusalem, near the road to the field where the women wash clothes.
-\v 18 They sent a message requesting King Hezekiah to come to them, but the king sent three of his officials to talk to them. He sent Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who supervised the palace, Shebna, the official secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, who communicated the king's messages to the people.
+\v 18 They sent a message requesting King Hezekiah to come to them, but the king sent three of his officials to talk to them. He sent Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who supervised the palace; Shebna, the official secretary; and Asaph's son Joah, who communicated the king's messages to the people.
 
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 \v 19 One of Sennacherib's important officials told them to take this message to Hezekiah:
-\p "This is what the king of Assyria, the great king, says: 'What are you trusting in to rescue you ?
+\p "This is what the king of Assyria, the great king, says: 'In what are you trusting to rescue you?
 \v 20 You say that you have weapons to fight us and that some country has promised to help you, but that is only talk. Who do you think will help you to rebel against my soldiers from Assyria?
 \v 21 Listen to me! You are relying on the army of Egypt. But that is like using a broken reed for a walking stick on which you could lean. It would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the king of Egypt would be like for anyone who relied on him for help.
 
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 \v 22 But perhaps you will say to me, "No, we are relying on Yahweh our God to help us." I would reply, "Is he not the one whom you insulted by tearing down his houses on the hills where the idols were worshiped and the altars on which you offered sacrifices, forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem?"
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-\v 23 So I suggest that you make a deal between you and my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, but I do not think that you are able to find two thousand of your men who can ride on them!
+\v 23 So I suggest that you make a deal between you and my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, but I do not think that you are able to find two thousand of your men who can ride on them!
 
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 \v 24 You are hoping that the king of Egypt will send chariots and men riding horses to assist you. But they certainly would not be able to defeat even the most unimportant official in my army!
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-\v 26 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Sir, please speak to us in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and be frightened."
+\v 26 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the official from Assyria, "Sir, please speak to us in your Aramaic language, because we understand it. Do not speak to us in our Hebrew language, because the people who are standing on the wall will understand it and be frightened."
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-\v 27 But the official replied, "Do you think that my master sent me to say these things only to you and not to the people who are standing on the wall? If you reject this message, the people in this city will soon need to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, just like you will, because there will be nothing more for you to eat or drink."
+\v 27 But the official replied, "Do you think that my master sent me to say these things only to you and not to the people who are standing on the wall? If you reject this message, the people in this city will soon need to eat their own dung and drink their own urine, just as you will, because there will be nothing more for you to eat or drink."
 
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-\v 28 Then the official stood up and shouted in the Hebrew language to the people sitting on the wall. He said, "Listen this message from the great king, the king of Assyria. He says this:
+\v 28 Then the official stood up and shouted in the Hebrew language to the people sitting on the wall. He said, "Listen to this message from the great king, the king of Assyria. He says this:
 \v 29 'Do not allow Hezekiah to deceive you. He will not be able to rescue you from my power.
 \v 30 Do not allow him to persuade you to rely on Yahweh, saying that Yahweh will rescue you, and that the army of Assyria will never capture this city!'
 
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-\v 31 Do not pay attention to what Hezekiah says! This is what the king of Assyria says: 'Come out of the city and surrender to me. If you do that, I will arrange for each of you to drink the juice from you own grapevines, and to eat figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells.
+\v 31 Do not pay attention to what Hezekiah says! This is what the king of Assyria says: 'Come out of the city and surrender to me. If you do that, I will arrange for each of you to drink the juice from you own grapevines, eat figs from your own trees, and drink water from your own wells.
 \v 32 You will be able to do that until we come and take you to a land that is like your land—a land where there is grain to make bread and vineyards to produce grapes for making wine. It will be a land that has plenty of olive trees and honey.' If you do what the king of Assyria commands, you will not die. You will continue to live.
 \p Do not allow Hezekiah to persuade you to trust in Yahweh, saying that he will rescue you!
 
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 \v 33 The gods that people of other nations worship have never rescued them from the power of the king of Assyria!
-\v 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did any of their gods delivered Samaria out of my hand?
-\v 35 None of these gods kept their people from being destroyed by the king of Assyria. Do you think your God Yahweh, can do any better?
+\v 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did any of their gods deliver Samaria out of my hand?
+\v 35 None of these gods kept their people from being destroyed by the king of Assyria. Do you think your God Yahweh can do any better?
 
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-\v 36 But the people who were listening were silent. No one said anything, because King Hezekiah had told them, "When the official from Assyria talks to you, do not answer him."
+\v 36 But the people who were listening were silent. No one said anything because King Hezekiah had told them, "When the official from Assyria talks to you, do not answer him."
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 \v 37 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah went back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn because they were extremely distressed, and they told him what the official from Assyria had said.
 
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 \v 2 Then he summoned Eliakim and Shebna and the older priests, who were also wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, and told them to talk to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz.
 
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-\v 3 He said to them to say these things to Isaiah: "King Hezekiah says that this is a day when we have great distress. Other nations are causing us to be insulted and disgraced like a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she is not strong enough to do it.
+\v 3 He told them to say these things to Isaiah: "King Hezekiah says that this is a day when we have great distress. Other nations are causing us to be insulted and disgraced like a woman who is about to give birth to a child, but she is not strong enough to do it.
 \v 4 Perhaps Yahweh our God has heard everything that the official from Assyria said. Perhaps he knows that his master, the king of Assyria, sent him to insult the all-powerful God and that Yahweh will punish him for what he said. And Hezekiah requests that you pray for the few of us who are still alive here in Jerusalem."
 
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-\v 5 When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah, and
+\v 5 When the messengers from Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
 \v 6 Isaiah instructed them to go back to their master and tell him what Yahweh says: "Those messengers from the king of Assyria have said evil things about me. But you should not be disturbed because of what they said.
 \v 7 Listen to this: I will cause Sennacherib to hear a rumor that will worry him, that other armies are about to attack his country. So he will return to his own country, and there I will cause him to be assassinated by some men."
 
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-\v 8 The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria and his army had left the city of Lachish, and that they were attacking Libnah, which was a nearby city. So the official went there to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem.
+\v 8 The official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria and his army had left the city of Lachish and that they were attacking Libnah, which was a nearby city. So the official went there to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem.
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 \v 9 Soon after that, King Sennacherib received a report that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was leading his army to attack them. But before King Sennacherib left Libnah to fight against the army from Ethiopia, he sent other messengers to King Hezekiah with a letter.
 
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 \v 15 Then Hezekiah prayed this: "Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelites belong, you are seated on your throne above the statues of creatures with wings, above the sacred chest. Only you are truly God. You rule all the kingdoms on this earth. You are the one who created everything on the earth and in the sky.
 
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-\v 16 So, Yahweh, please listen to what I am saying, and look at what is happening. And listen to what King Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God.
+\v 16 So Yahweh, please listen to what I am saying, and look at what is happening. And listen to what King Sennacherib has said to insult you, the all-powerful God.
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 \v 17 Yahweh, it is true that the armies of the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations and ruined their lands.
 \v 18 And they have thrown the idols of those nations into fires and burned them. But that was not difficult to do, because they were not gods. They were only statues made of wood and stone, idols that were shaped by humans, and that is why they were destroyed easily.
 
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-\v 19 So now, Yahweh our God, please rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria, in order that the people in all the kingdoms of the world may know that you, Yahweh, are the only one who is truly God."
+\v 19 So now, Yahweh our God, please rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria so that the people in all the kingdoms of the world may know that you, Yahweh, are the only one who is truly God."
 
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 \q2 and now I have been causing it to occur.
 \q I planned that your army
 \q2 would have the power to capture many cities
-\q3 that were surrounded by high walls,
+\q3 that were surrounded by high walls
 \q2 and cause them to become piles of rubble.
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 \v 26 The people who lived in those cities have no power,
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 \q3 and when you go outside;
 \q2 I also know that you are raging against me.
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-\v 28 So, because you have raged against me,
+\v 28 So, because you have raged against me
 \q2 and because I have heard you do this,
 \q it will be as though I will put a hook in your nose,
-\q2 and I will put an iron bit in your mouth,
-\q in order that I can take you where I want you to go.
+\q2 and I will put an iron bit in your mouth
+\q so that I can take you where I want you to go.
 \q2 I will force you to return to your own country
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 \q2 without conquering Jerusalem.'
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 \q This year and next year you and your people
 \q2 will be able to harvest only wild grain.
 \q But the following year, you Israelites will be able
-\q2 to plant grain and harvest it,
+\q2 to plant grain and harvest it
 \q2 and to plant vineyards and eat the grapes.
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 \v 30 The people in Judah who remain alive will prosper
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 \q2 and which produce much fruit.
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 \v 31 There will be many people in Jerusalem
-\q2 who will remain alive,
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 \q because I, Yahweh, commander of the armies,
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-\v 35 That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents, and killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When the rest of the soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere.
+\v 35 That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents and killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When the rest of the soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere.
 \v 36 Then King Sennacherib left and went home to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.
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-\v 37 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat, northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
+\v 37 One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his two sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with their swords. Then they escaped and went to the region of Ararat, northwest of Nineveh. And another of Sennacherib's sons, Esarhaddon, became the king of Assyria.
 
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 \v 8 Then Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, "What will Yahweh do to prove that he will heal me and that two days from now I will be able to go up to the temple?"
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-\v 9 Isaiah replied, "Yahweh will do something that will prove to you that he will do what he promised. Do you want him to cause the shadow on the stairway to go back ten steps or to go forward ten steps ?"
+\v 9 Isaiah replied, "Yahweh will do something that will prove to you that he will do what he promised. Do you want him to cause the shadow on the stairway to go back ten steps or to go forward ten steps?"
 
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