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 \v 16 That is the covenant that he made with Abraham,
 \q2 and he repeated that covenant to Isaac.
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-\v 17 It was an covenant for the Israelite people,
+\v 17 It was a covenant for the Israelite people,
 \q2 and he wanted that covenant to endure forever.
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 \v 18 What he said was, "I will give the region of Canaan to you,
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 \v 23 You people throughout the world, sing to Yahweh.
-\q2 Every day proclaim to others that he has saved us.
+\q2 Every day, proclaim to others that he has saved us.
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 \v 24 Tell among the nations that he is great;
 \q2 tell all the peoples the marvelous things that he has done.
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 \v 25 Yahweh is great, and he deserves to be praised very much.
-\q2 He should be revered more than all the gods,
+\q2 He should be revered more than all the gods
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 \v 26 because all the gods that the other peoples worship are only idols,
 \q2 but Yahweh is truly great; he created the skies.
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 \v 29 Praise Yahweh with the glory his name deserves.
 \q2 Come before him with offerings to give to him!
-\q2 Bow down and worship Yahweh because he is holy and his holiness shines out from him with wonderful beauty.
+\q2 Bow down and worship Yahweh because he is holy, and his holiness shines out from him with wonderful beauty.
 
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 \v 30 Be very afraid in his presence, because he is good and powerful, completely different than you.
-\q2 He put the earth firmly in its place; and nothing ever will be able to move it.
+\q2 He put the earth firmly in its place, and nothing will ever be able to move it.
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 \v 31 Everything in the sky and on the earth should be happy.
 \q2 People everywhere should say, "Yahweh is our king!"
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 \v 32 The oceans and all the creatures that are in the oceans should shout;
-\q2 the fields and everything that is in them should rejoice.
+\q2 the fields and everything in them should rejoice.
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 \v 33 When they do that, it will be as though the trees in the forest will sing joyfully in front of Yahweh.
 \q2 That will happen when he comes to judge everyone on the earth.
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 \v 35 Say to him, "God, you are the one who rescues us,
 \q2 so gather us together and save us from the armies of other nations.
-\q1 When you do that, we will thank you ,
+\q1 When you do that, we will thank you,
 \q2 and we will be happy to praise you."
 
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-\v 36 Praise Yahweh, the God of us Israelite people,
+\v 36 Praise Yahweh, the God of us Israelite people.
 \q2 He has always existed, and he will exist forever.
-\m After the people finished singing that song, they all said "Amen!", and they praised Yahweh.
+\m After the people finished singing that song, they all said "Amen!" and they praised Yahweh.
 
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 \v 37 Then David left Asaph and the other members of his clan there in front of the tent in which Yahweh's sacred chest had been placed. He told them that they must do their work there every day.
-\v 38 David also left Obed-Edom and 68 other descendants of Levi to work with them. Hosah and Obed-Edom guarded the entrances of the sacred tent.
+\v 38 David also left Obed-Edom and sixty-eight other descendants of Levi to work with them. Hosah and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun guarded the entrances of the sacred tent.
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 \v 39 David also told Zadok the high priest and the other priests who worked with him to remain in front of Yahweh's sacred tent, at the place where the Israelite people worshiped Yahweh there in the city of Gibeon.
 
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 \v 7 Therefore, this is what you should say to my servant David: 'I, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, took you from a pasture where you were taking care of sheep, and I appointed you to be the ruler of my Israelite people.
-\v 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have gotten rid of all your enemies who were in front of you. And now I will cause you to become very famous, as well known as the names of the greatest men who have ever lived on the earth.
+\v 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have gotten rid of all of your enemies who were in front of you. And now I will cause you to become very famous—as well known as the names of the greatest men who have ever lived on the earth.
 
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-\v 9-10 Formerly, during the time that I appointed leaders for my Israelite people, many violent groups oppressed them. But this will not happen anymore. I have chosen a place where my Israelite people can live peacefully and no one will disturb them anymore. I will give them rest from being attacked by their enemies. And I will defeat all your enemies.
+\v 9-10 Formerly, during the time that I appointed leaders for my Israelite people, many violent groups oppressed them. But this will not happen anymore. I have chosen a place where my Israelite people can live peacefully and no one will disturb them anymore. I will give them rest from being attacked by their enemies. And I will defeat all of your enemies.
 \pi I declare to you that I, Yahweh, will enable your descendants to rule after you die.
 
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 \v 13 I will be like a father to him, and it will be as though he is a son to me. I stopped loving Saul, the one who was the king before you became king, but I will never stop loving your son.
-\v 14 I will cause him to rule over my people and his kingdom will endure forever.'"
+\v 14 I will cause him to rule over my people, and his kingdom will endure forever.'"
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 \v 15 So Nathan reported to David everything that Yahweh had revealed to him.
 
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-\v 16 Then David went into the sacred tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this:
-\pi "Yahweh my God, I am certainly not worthy for you to have done of all these things for me, and my family is not worthy, either.
+\v 16 Then David went into the sacred tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh and prayed this:
+\pi "Yahweh my God, I am certainly not worthy for you to have done all these things for me, and my family is not worthy either.
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-\v 17 And O God, now, in addition to everything else, you have spoken about what will happen to my descendants in the future for many generations. Yahweh my God, you have acted toward me as though I was the most important man on the earth!
+\v 17 And O God, now, in addition to everything else, you have spoken about what will happen to my descendants in the future for many generations. Yahweh my God, you have acted toward me as though I were the most important man on the earth!
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 \v 18 What more can I, David, say to you for honoring me? Yahweh, you know what kind of person I am.
 
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-\v 19 You have done all this, Yahweh, and because it is what you wanted to do. You have done these great things for me and you have revealed to me these things that you have promised to do for me, because you love me.
+\v 19 You have done all this, Yahweh, because it is what you wanted to do. You have done these great things for me, and you have revealed to me these things that you have promised to do for me because you love me.
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 \v 20 Yahweh, you are great. There is no one like you. Only you are God, which is what we have always heard.
 \v 21 And there is no nation in the world like Israel. Israel is the only nation on the earth whose people you went out to rescue. You performed great and awesome miracles, rescuing our ancestors from being slaves in Egypt, expelling the people of other peoples who were in Canaan.
 
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-\v 22 You have caused us your Israelite people to belong to you forever, and you, Yahweh, have become our God!
+\v 22 You have caused us, your Israelite people, to belong to you forever, and you, Yahweh, have become our God!
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-\v 23 And now Yahweh, I pray that you will cause the things that you have promised about me and my descendants to be fulfilled forever, and do the things that you have said that you would do.
-\v 24 When that happens, you will be famous forever. And people will exclaim, 'Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the God who rules Israel!' And you will cause that forever there will be descendants of mine who will rule.
+\v 23 And now, Yahweh, I pray that you will cause the things that you have promised about me and my descendants to be fulfilled forever and do the things that you have said that you would do.
+\v 24 When that happens, you will be famous forever. And people will exclaim, 'Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, is the God who rules Israel!' And you will cause that there will forever be descendants of mine who will rule.
 
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 \v 25 You, my God, have revealed to me that you will cause some of my descendants to become kings. So I am brave enough to pray like this to you.
 \v 26 Yahweh, you are God! You have promised to do these good things for me.
-\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless my descendants, in order that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
+\v 27 And now you, Yahweh, have promised to bless my descendants so that they will continue to rule forever. That will happen because you, Yahweh, are the one who has blessed them, and you will keep blessing them forever."
 
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 \v 1 Some time later, David's army attacked the army of Philistia and defeated them. They captured the city of Gath and the surrounding villages.
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-\v 2 His army also defeated the army of the Moab people. The people were forced to accept David to be their ruler, and also to pay money each year to David's government, in order that David's army would protect them.
+\v 2 His army also defeated the army of the Moab people. The people were forced to accept David to be their ruler and also to pay money each year to David's government so that David's army would protect them.
 
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 \v 5 When the army of Aram came from the city of Damascus to help Hadadezer's army, David's soldiers killed twenty-two thousand of them.
-\v 6 Then David stationed groups of his soldiers in Damascus, and the people of Aram were forced to accept David to be their ruler, and to pay to David's government each year the payment that he demanded. And Yahweh enabled David's army to win battles everywhere they went.
+\v 6 Then David stationed groups of his soldiers in Damascus, and the people of Aram were forced to accept David to be their ruler and to pay to David's government each year the payment that he demanded. And Yahweh enabled David's army to win battles everywhere they went.
 
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-\v 7 David soldiers took the gold shields that were carried by the officers of Hadadezer's army and brought them to Jerusalem.
-\v 8 They also brought from Tebah and Kun, two cities that belonged to Hadadezer, a lot of bronze, which David's son Solomon later used to make the huge bronze basin called "The Sea" and the pillars and other bronze items for the temple.
+\v 7 David's soldiers took the gold shields that were carried by the officers of Hadadezer's army and brought them to Jerusalem.
+\v 8 They also brought from Tebah and Kun, two cities that belonged to Hadadezer, much bronze that David's son Solomon later used to make the huge bronze tank called "The Sea" and the pillars and other bronze items for the temple.
 
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 \v 9 When Tou, the king of the city of Hamath in Aram, heard that David's army had defeated the entire army of King Hadadezer,
-\v 10 he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to greet him and congratulate him about his defeating Hadadezer's army, which had been fighting the army of Tou. Hadoram brought to David many items made of gold, silver, and bronze.
+\v 10 he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him about his defeating Hadadezer's army, which had been fighting the army of Tou. Hadoram brought to David many items made of gold, silver, and bronze.
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-\v 11 King David dedicated those thngs to Yahweh, like he had done with the silver and gold that his soldiers had taken from the Edom and Moab peoples, and from the Ammon people and from the people of Philistia, and from the descendants of Amalek.
+\v 11 King David dedicated those things to Yahweh, as he had done with the silver and gold that his soldiers had taken from the Edomite and Moabite peoples, from the Ammonite people, from the people of Philistia, and from the descendants of Amalek.
 
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 \v 14 David ruled over all the Israelite people, and he always did for them what was just and fair.
 \v 15 Joab son of Zeruiah was the chief army commander. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the record keeper.
 \v 16 Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelek son of Abiathar were priests. Shavsha was the official secretary.
-\v 17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada ruled over the Kereth and Peleth groups who were David's bodyguards. And David's sons were his most important officials.
+\v 17 Benaiah son of Jehoiada ruled over the Kereth and Peleth groups who were David's bodyguards, and David's sons were his most important officials.
 
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-\v 1 Some time later, Nahash, the king of the Ammon people, died. Then his son Hanun became their king.
-\v 2 When David heard about that, he thought to himself, "Nahash was kind to me, so I will be kind to his son." So David sent some officials there, to tell Hanun that he was sorry to hear that Hanun's father had died.
-\p But when David's officials came to Hanun in the land where the Ammonite lived,
-\v 3 the leaders of the Ammon people said to Hanun, "Do you think that David is really to honor your father that King David is sending these men to say that he is sorry that your father died? We think that his men have come to look around our city in order to determine how his army can conquer us."
+\v 1 Some time later, Nahash, the king of the Ammonite people, died. Then his son Hanun became their king.
+\v 2 When David heard about that, he thought to himself, "Nahash was kind to me, so I will be kind to his son." So David sent some officials there to tell Hanun that he was sorry to hear that Hanun's father had died.
+\p But when David's officials came to Hanun in the land where the Ammonites lived,
+\v 3 the leaders of the Ammonite people said to Hanun, "Do you think that it is really to honor your father that King David is sending these men to say that he is sorry that your father died? We think that his men have come to look around our city in order to determine how his army can conquer us."
 
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-\v 4 Hanun believed what they said; so he commanded some soldiers who seized the officials whom David had sent, and shaved off their beards, and insulted them by cutting off the lower part of their robes, and then sent them away.
+\v 4 Hanun believed what they said, so he commanded some soldiers, who seized the officials whom David had sent, shaved off their beards, and insulted them by cutting off the lower part of their robes, and then sent them away.
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 \v 5 The officials were greatly humiliated. When David found out about what had happened to his officials, he sent some messengers to them to tell them, "Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown again, and then return home."
 
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-\v 6 Then the leaders of the Ammon people realized that they had greatly insulted David. So Hanun and some of his officials sent thirty-three thousand kilograms of silver to hire chariots and chariot drivers from the regions of Aram Naharaim, Aram Maakah and Zobah northeast of Israel.
-\v 7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and chariot drivers, as well as the kings of the region of Maakah and their armies. They came and set up their tents near the city of Medeba in the region of Moab. The soldiers from the Ammon people also marched out and stood in their positions at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah.
+\v 6 Then the leaders of the Ammonite people realized that they had greatly insulted David. So Hanun and some of his officials sent thirty-three thousand kilograms of silver to hire chariots and chariot drivers from the regions of Aram Naharaim, Aram Maakah, and Zobah northeast of Israel.
+\v 7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and chariot drivers, as well as the kings of the region of Maakah and their armies. They came and set up their tents near the city of Medeba in the region of Moab. The soldiers from the Ammonite people also marched out and stood in their positions at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah.
 
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-\v 8 When David heard about that, he sent Joab and all his army.
-\v 9 The soldiers of the Ammon people came out of their city and lined up for battle at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah. Meanwhile, the other kings who had come with their armies stood in their positions in the open fields.
+\v 8 When David heard about that, he sent Joab and all of his army.
+\v 9 The soldiers of the Ammonite people came out of their city and lined up for battle at the entrance to their capital city, Rabbah. Meanwhile, the other kings who had come with their armies stood in their positions in the open fields.
 
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 \v 10 Joab saw that there were groups of enemy soldiers in front of his troops and behind his troops. So he selected some of the best Israelite troops and put them in positions to fight against the soldiers of Aram.
-\v 11 He appointed his older brother Abishai to be the commander of his other soldiers and he told them to stand in their positions in front of the army of the Ammon people.
+\v 11 He appointed his older brother Abishai to be the commander of his other soldiers, and he told them to stand in their positions in front of the army of the Ammonite people.
 
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-\v 12 Joab said to them, "If the soldiers from Aram are too strong for us to defeat them, then your soldiers must come and help us. But if the soldiers from the Ammon people are too strong for you to defeat them, then my soldiers will come and help your men.
+\v 12 Joab said to them, "If the soldiers from Aram are too strong for us to defeat them, then your soldiers must come and help us. But if the soldiers from the Ammonite people are too strong for you to defeat them, then my soldiers will come and help your men.
 \v 13 We must be strong and fight hard to defend our people and our cities that belong to our God. Yahweh will do what he considers to be good."
 
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-\v 14 So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the army of Aram; and the soldiers from Aram were driven away by the army of Israel.
-\v 15 And when the soldiers of the Ammon people saw that the soldiers from Aram were running away, they also started to run away from Abishai and his army, and they retreated back inside the city. So Joab and his army returned to Jerusalem.
+\v 14 So Joab and his troops advanced to fight the army of Aram, and the soldiers from Aram were driven away by the army of Israel.
+\v 15 And when the soldiers of the Ammonite people saw that the soldiers from Aram were running away, they also started to run away from Abishai and his army, and they retreated back inside the city. So Joab and his army returned to Jerusalem.
 
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-\v 16 After the leaders of the army of Aram realized that they had been defeated by the army of Israel, they sent messengers to another part of Aram on the east side of the Euphrates river, and brought troops from there to the battle area, with Shophak, the commander of Hadadezer's army, leading them.
+\v 16 After the leaders of the army of Aram realized that they had been defeated by the army of Israel, they sent messengers to another part of Aram on the east side of the Euphrates River and brought troops from there to the battle area with Shophak, the commander of Hadadezer's army, leading them.
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 \v 17 When David heard about that, he gathered all the Israelite soldiers, and they crossed the Jordan River. They advanced and took their battle positions to attack the army of Aram.
 
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 \v 18 But the army of Aram ran away from the soldiers of Israel. However, David's soldiers killed seven thousand of their chariot drivers and forty thousand other soldiers. They also killed Shophak, their army commander.
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-\v 19 When the kings who had been ruled by Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelite army, they made peace with David, and agreed to allow him to rule them.
-\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammon people anymore.
+\v 19 When the kings who had been ruled by Hadadezer realized that they had been defeated by the Israelite army, they made peace with David and agreed to allow him to rule them.
+\p So the rulers of Aram did not want to help the rulers of the Ammonite people anymore.
 
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-\v 1 In that region, kings usually went with their armies to fight their enemies in the springtime. But the following year, David did not do that. Instead, he stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent his commander Joab to lead the army. Joab took his troops. They crossed the Jordan River and ruined the land of the Ammon people. Then they went to Rabbah, the capital city, and surrounded it. David stayed in Jerusalem for a while. But later he took more troops and went to help Joab. Their armies attacked Rabbah and destroyed it.
+\v 1 In that region, kings usually went with their armies to fight their enemies in the springtime. But the following year, David did not do that. Instead, he stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent his commander Joab to lead the army. Joab took his troops. They crossed the Jordan River and ruined the land of the Ammonite people. Then they went to Rabbah, the capital city, and surrounded it. David stayed in Jerusalem for a while. But later, he took more troops and went to help Joab. Their armies attacked Rabbah and destroyed it.
 
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 \v 2 Then David took the crown from the head of the king of Rabbah and put it on his own head. It was very heavy; it weighed thirty-three kilograms, and it had many very valuable stones. They also took many other valuable things from the city.
-\v 3 Then they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for their army, using saws and iron picks and axes. David's soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammon people. Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.
+\v 3 Then they brought the people out of the city and forced them to work for their army using saws and iron picks and axes. David's soldiers did this in all the cities of the Ammonite people. Then David and all of his army returned to Jerusalem.
 
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-\v 4 Later, David's army fought a battle with the army of Philistia, at the city of Gezer. During the battle Sibbekai, from Hushah clan, killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the of the Rapha giants. So the armies of Philistia were defeated.
+\v 4 Later, David's army fought a battle with the army of Philistia, at the city of Gezer. During the battle, Sibbekai from the Hushah clan killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the of the Rapha giants. So the armies of Philistia were defeated.
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 \v 5 In another battle against the soldiers of Philistia, Elhanan son of Jair, killed Lahmi, the younger brother of the giant Goliath from the city of Gath, who had a spear which was as thick as a weaver's rod.