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-\v 8 When Asa was encouraged by hearing what the Azariah, the son of Oded, prophesied. Asa commanded his workers to remove all the detestable idols from everywhere in the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and from the towns that his soldiers had captured in the hills of the tribe of Ephraim. Asa's workers repaired the altar where people offered sacrifices to Yahweh that was front of the entrance to the temple in Jerusalem.
-\v 9 Then he gathered all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and many people from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living among them. He was able to do that because many people from those tribes in Israel had come to Judah him, after they had realized that Yahweh was helping him.
+\v 8 Asa was encouraged when he heard what Azariah son of Oded, prophesied. Asa commanded his workers to remove all the detestable idols from everywhere in the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and from the towns that his soldiers had captured in the hills of the tribe of Ephraim. Asa's workers repaired the altar where people offered sacrifices to Yahweh that was in front of the entrance to the temple in Jerusalem.
+\v 9 He gathered together all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and many people had come from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living among them. He was able to do that because many people had left those tribes in Israel, when they realized that Yahweh was helping him.
 
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14-2CH/27.usfm

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 \v 6 Jotham faithfully obeyed Yahweh his God, and as a result he became a very powerful king.
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-\v 7 A record of everything else that Jotham did during the time that he was the king, including the wars that his army fought, is written in the book of the kings ofJudah and Israel.
+\v 7 A record of everything else that Jotham did during the time that he was the king, including the wars that his army fought, is written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
 
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 \v 8 After he had ruled Judah for sixteen years, he died when he was forty-one years old.

14-2CH/28.usfm

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-\v 9 But a prophet of Yahweh, whose name was Oded, was in Samaria. He went out of the city to meet the army as it was returning. He said to them, "Yahweh, the God to whom your ancestors belongs, was angry with the people of Judah, so he has handed them over to you, and you have slaughtered so many in a towering rage.
+\v 9 But a prophet of Yahweh, whose name was Oded, was in Samaria. He went out of the city to meet the army as it was returning. He said to them, "Yahweh, the God to whom your ancestors belonged, was angry with the people of Judah, so he has handed them over to you, and you have slaughtered so many in a towering rage.
 \v 10 And now you want to sin by causing men and women from Judah to become your slaves, but you have certainly offended Yahweh, our God, in this matter.
 \v 11 So listen to me! Send back to Judah your fellow countrymen whom you have captured, because Yahweh is extremely angry with you for what you did to them."
 

14-2CH/29.usfm

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 \v 7 They locked the doors of the temple and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn any incense, and they did not offer any sacrifices that were to be completely burned on the altar in the holy place.
 
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-\v 8 Therefore, Yahweh has become very angry with us people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and he has caused other people to become frightened and horrified us. And they ridicule us. You know this very well.
-\v 9 That is why our fathers have been killed in battles , and our sons and daughters and our wives have been captured and taken to other countries.
+\v 8 Therefore, Yahweh has become very angry with us people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, and he has caused other people to become frightened and horrified of us. And they ridicule us. You know this very well.
+\v 9 That is why our fathers have been killed in battles, and our sons and daughters and our wives have been captured and taken to other countries.
 
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 \v 10 But now I intend to make a covenant with Yahweh, our God, in order that he will no longer be angry with us.
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-\v 15 When those men had gathered their fellow descendants of Levi, and when they had all did all to set themselves apart as they prepare to obey the king, who was following Yahweh's commands, and went into the temple to clean it up.
-\v 16 The priests entered the temple to purify it. They brought out into the courtyard of the temple everything that they had found in the temple that was not pleasing to Yahweh. Then the descendants of Levi took those things down to the Kidron Valley and burned them there.
+\v 15 Those men gathered their fellow descendants of Levi and together they prepared themselves for the work of the priesthood. They took all the steps to prepare themselves so they could serve the king in Yahweh's house, because the king was following Yahweh's commands. And the Levites entered the temple to clean it up.
+\v 16 The worked within the temple to purify it. They brought out into the courtyard of the temple everything that they had found in the temple that was not pleasing to Yahweh. Then the descendants of Levi took those things down to the Kidron Valley and burned them there.
 \v 17 The priests and other descendants of Levi started this work on the first day of the first month and finished setting apart for the honor of Yahweh, the courtyard of the temple on the eighth day of that month, and they finished the work of setting the temple apart for the honor of Yahweh, one week later.
 
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 \v 33 The other animals that they brought were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats that were set apart for the honor of Yahweh, to be sacrifices.
 
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-\v 34 There were not enough priests to remove the skins from the animals that would be completely burned on the altar. So their fellow descendants of Levi helped them until that work was finished, and until other priests had set themselves apart for the work of honoring Yahweh, themselves for that work, like the descendants of Levi had also set themselves apart to honor Yahweh.
+\v 34 There were not enough priests to remove the skins from the animals that would be completely burned on the altar. So the descendants of Levi stepped in to helped the priests until the work was finished. The Levites were more hard-working and dedicated that the priests were.
 
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25-LAM/04.usfm

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-\v 7 Our leaders are like pure snow or white milk,
-\q2  they were so clean and spotless.
+\v 7 Our leaders used to be like pure snow or white milk,
+\q2 they were so clean and spotless.
 \q1 Their bodies were healthy,
 \q2 pink like coral and brilliant like sapphires.
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-\v 8 Our leaders' faces are blacker than soot,
+\v 8 Now our leaders' faces are blacker than soot,
 \q2 and no one recognizes them when they walk in the streets.
 \q1 Their skin has shriveled and it hangs on their bones,
 \q2 and it has become as dry as a stick of wood.