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 \v 15 The following is the reason for the requirement to work which King Solomon imposed: to build the temple of Yahweh and his own palace, to build the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem, and to build the defenses of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
-\v 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, he burned it, and killed the Canaanites in the city. Then Pharaoh gave the city to his daughter, Solomon's wife, as a wedding gift.
+\v 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites in the city. Then Pharaoh gave the city to his daughter, Solomon's wife, as a wedding gift.
 
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 \v 17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Beth Horon the Lower,
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-\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, began the reign of Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah.
-\v 2 Azariah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. He reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
-\v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, following the example of his father, and doing as Amaziah had done.
+\v 1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began his reign.
+\v 2 Azariah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jechiliah, and she was from Jerusalem.
+\v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, just as his father Amaziah had done.
 
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 \v 4 However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.