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-\v 20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea. They were eating and drinking and were happy.
+\v 20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea. They were eating and drinking and were rejoicing.
 \v 21 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
 \v 22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,
 \v 23 ten head of cattle fattened in the stall, twenty head of cattle taken from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
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 \v 27 But will God actually live on the earth? Look, the entire universe and heaven itself cannot contain you—how much less can this temple that I have built!
-\v 28 Yet please respect this prayer of your servant and his request, Yahweh my God; listen to the cry and prayer that your servant prays before you today.
+\v 28 Yet please respect this prayer of your servant and his humble request, Yahweh my God; listen to the cry and prayer that your servant prays before you today.
 
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 \v 29 May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, to the place about which you have said, 'My name and my presence will be there'—in order to listen to the prayers that your servant will pray toward this place.
-\v 30 So listen to the request of your servant and of your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, listen from the place where you live, from the heavens; and when you listen, forgive.
+\v 30 So listen to the humble request of your servant and of your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, listen from the place where you live, from the heavens; and when you listen, forgive.
 
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 \v 31 If a man sins against his neighbor and is required to swear an oath, and if he comes and swears an oath before your altar in this house,
-\v 32 listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.
+\v 32 listen from the heavens and act. Judge your servants, condemning the wicked and bringing what he has done upon his own head. Declare the innocent not guilty and give to him according to his righteousness.
 
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-\v 33 When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn back to you, confess your name, pray, and request forgiveness from you in this temple—
+\v 33 When your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, if they turn back to you, confess your name, pray, and seek your favor in this temple—
 \v 34 then please listen in the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel; bring them back to the land that you gave to their ancestors.
 
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 \v 37 Suppose there is famine in the land, or suppose that there is disease, blight or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; or suppose that an enemy attacks the city gates in their land, or that there is any plague or sickness—
-\v 38 and suppose then that prayers and requests are made by a person or by all your people Israel—each knowing the plague in his own heart as he spreads out his hands toward this temple.
+\v 38 and suppose then that prayers and humble requests are made by a person or by all your people Israel—each knowing the plague in his own heart as he spreads out his hands toward this temple.
 
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 \v 39 Then listen from heaven, the place where you live, forgive and act, and reward every person for all he does; you know his heart, because you and you only know the hearts of all human beings.
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 \v 49 Then from heaven, the place where you live, listen to their prayer and their request for help, and you will make matters right for them.
-\v 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and make them objects of compassion before their conquerors, and cause their conquerors to have compassion on them.
+\v 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and make them objects of compassion before those who have taken them captive, and cause their captors to have compassion on them.
 
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-\v 51 They are your people whom you have chosen, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.
-\v 52 May your eyes be open to the request of your servant and to the requests of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
+\v 51 They are your people and your inheritance, whom you rescued out of Egypt as if from the middle of a furnace where iron is forged.
+\v 52 May your eyes be open to the humble request of your servant and to the requests of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to you.
 \v 53 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to belong to you and receive your promises, just as you explained by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh."
 
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 \v 58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to live in all his ways and keep his commandments and his regulations and his statutes, which he commanded our fathers.
 
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-\v 59 Let these words I have spoken, by which I have made request before Yahweh, be near Yahweh our God day and night, so that he may help the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require;
+\v 59 Let these words I have spoken, by which I have sought the favor of Yahweh, be near Yahweh our God day and night, so that he may help the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as every day will require;
 \v 60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God, and there is no other God!
 \v 61 Therefore let your heart be true to Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes and keep his commandments, as on this day."
 
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 \v 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God for seven days and also for another seven days, a total of fourteen days.
-\v 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes with joyful and glad hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, his servant, and to Israel, his people.
+\v 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their tents with joyful and glad hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, his servant, and to Israel, his people.
 
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 \v 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
 
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-\v 3 Then Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request that you have made before me. I have set apart this house, which you have built, to myself, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
+\v 3 Then Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request for favor that you have made before me. I have set apart this house, which you have built, to myself, to put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
 
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 \v 4 As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness, obeying all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my decrees,
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-\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to test him with hard questions.
+\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard the report about Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to test him with hard questions.
 \v 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very long caravan, with camels loaded with spices, much gold, and many precious gemstones. When she arrived, she told Solomon all that was in her heart.
 
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 \v 6 She said to the king, "It is true, the report that I heard in my own land of your words and your wisdom.
-\v 7 I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me about your wisdom and wealth! You have exceeded the fame that I heard about.
+\v 7 I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me! In wisdom and wealth you have exceeded the report that I heard.
 
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 \v 8 How blessed are your wives, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom. \f + \ft Some Hebrew copies have: \fqa How blessed are your men \fqa* . The ancient Greek translation has \fqa How blessed are your wives \fqa* . Many think it is probable that \fqa women \fqa* was misread as \fqa men \fqa* , because two Hebrew words are very similar. \f*
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 \v 2 They were from the nations about which Yahweh said to the people of Israel, "You will not go among them to marry, neither will they come among you, for they will certainly turn your heart to their gods." In spite of this command, Solomon was affectionate toward these women in love.
 
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-\v 3 Solomon had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
+\v 3 Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
 \v 4 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; his heart was not fully surrendered to Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
 
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 \v 14 Then Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was from the royal family of Edom.
 \v 15 When David was in Edom, Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the dead, every man who had been killed in Edom.
 \v 16 Joab and all Israel remained there six months until he had killed every male in Edom.
-\v 17 But Hadad was taken with other Edomites by his father's servants into Egypt, since Hadad was still a little child.
+\v 17 But Hadad fled to Egypt with other Edomites, his father's servants, when Hadad was still a little child.
 
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 \v 18 They left Midian and came to Paran, from where they took men with them to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and land and food.
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 \v 23 God also raised up another adversary to Solomon, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
-\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a small force, when David defeated the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon controlled Damascus.
+\v 24 Rezon gathered men to himself and became captain over a marauding band when David slew the men of Zobah. Rezon's men went to Damascus and lived there, and Rezon reigned Damascus.
 \v 25 He was an enemy of Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the trouble that Hadad caused. Rezon abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.
 
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-\v 26 Then Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, an official of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
+\v 26 Then Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
 \v 27 He lifted up his hand against the king because Solomon had built up the place located at Millo and repaired the opening in the city wall of David his father.
 
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-\v 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? I have been sent to you with bad news.
+\v 6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? I have been sent to you with severe news.
 \v 7 Go, tell Jeroboam that Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I raised you from among the people to make you the leader over my people Israel.
 \v 8 I tore the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, to do only what was right in my eyes.
 
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 \v 10 Therefore, look, I will bring disaster on your family; I will cut off from you every male child in Israel, whether slave or free, and will completely remove your family, like someone who burns up dung until it is gone.
 
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-\v 11 Anyone who belongs to your family who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the heavens, for I, Yahweh, have said it.'
+\v 11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the heavens, for I, Yahweh, have said it.'
 \v 12 So arise, wife of Jeroboam, and go back to your home; when your feet enter the city, the child Abijah will die.
 \v 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one from Jeroboam's family who will go into a grave, because only in him, out of Jeroboam's house, was anything good found in the sight of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
 
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 \v 23 For they also built for themselves high places, stone pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
-\v 24 There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same despicable practices as the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
+\v 24 There were also cultic prostitutes in the land. They did the same disgusting practices as the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 1 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
-\v 2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maakah. She was the daughter of Abishalom.
+\v 2 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maakah. She was the daughter of Abishalom.
 \v 3 He walked in all the sins that his father had committed before his time; his heart was not devoted to Yahweh his God as the heart of David, his ancestor, had been.
 
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 \v 9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.
-\v 10 He ruled forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
+\v 10 He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maakah, the daughter of Abishalom.
 \v 11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as David, his ancestor, had done.
 
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 \v 2 "Although I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, so as to provoke me to anger with their sins.
 
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-\v 3 See, I will completely sweep away Baasha and his family and I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
+\v 3 See, I will consume Baasha and his family and I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
 \v 4 The dogs will eat anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat anyone who dies in the fields."
 
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 \v 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah; he reigned two years.
 \v 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now Elah was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.
-\v 10 Zimri went in, attacked him and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place.
+\v 10 Zimri went in, attacked him, and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.
 
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 \v 11 When Zimri began to reign and was seated on his throne, he killed all the family of Baasha. He did not leave alive a single male belonging to Baasha's relatives or friends.
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 \v 17 After these things the woman's son, the woman who owned the house, fell sick. His sickness was so severe that there was no more breath left in him.
-\v 18 So his mother said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?"
+\v 18 So his mother said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my iniquity and to kill my son?"
 
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 \v 19 Then Elijah replied to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms and carried him up into the room where he was staying, and he laid the boy on his own bed.
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 \v 4 The king of Israel answered and said, "It is as you say, my master, king. I and all that I have are yours."
 \v 5 The messengers came again and said, "Ben-Hadad says this, 'I sent word to you saying that you must give me your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.
-\v 6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house and your servants' houses. They will seize with their own hands and take away whatever pleases their eyes.'"
+\v 6 But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house and your servants' houses. They will seize with their own hands and take away everything that delights your eyes.'"
 
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 \v 10 Then Ben-Hadad sent his reply to Ahab, and said, "May the gods do so to me and more also, if even the ashes of Samaria will be enough for all the people who follow me to have a handful each."
 
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-\v 11 The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell Ben-Hadad, 'No one who is just putting on his armor, should boast as if he were taking it off.'"
-\v 12 Ben-Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings under him who were in their tents. Ben-Hadad commanded his men, "Line yourselves up in position for battle." So they prepared themselves in position of battle to attack the city.
+\v 11 The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell Ben-Hadad, 'No one who girding on his armor should boast as if he were taking it off.'"
+\v 12 Ben-Hadad heard this message as he was drinking, he and the kings under him who were in their tents. Ben-Hadad commanded his servants, "Line yourselves up in position for battle." So they prepared themselves in position of battle to attack the city.
 
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 \v 13 Then behold, a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Yahweh says, 'Have you seen this great army? Look, I will place it into your hand today, and you will know that I am Yahweh.'"
-\v 14 Ahab replied, "By whom?" Yahweh replied and said, "By the young officers who serve the governors of the districts." Then Ahab said, "Who will begin the battle?" Yahweh answered, "You."
-\v 15 Then Ahab mustered the young officers who served the governors of the districts. They numbered 232. After them he mustered all the soldiers, all the army of Israel; seven thousand in number.
+\v 14 Ahab replied, "By whom?" Yahweh replied and said, "By the young officers who serve the governors of the provinces." Then Ahab said, "Who will begin the battle?" Yahweh answered, "You."
+\v 15 Then Ahab mustered the young officers who served the governors of the provinces. They numbered 232. After them he mustered all the soldiers, all the army of Israel; seven thousand in number.
 
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 \v 16 They went out at noon. Ben-Hadad had been drinking himself drunk in his tent, he and the thirty-two lesser kings who were supporting him.
-\v 17 The young officers who served the governors of the districts went forward first. Then Ben-Hadad was informed by scouts that he had sent out, "Men are coming out from Samaria."
+\v 17 The young officers who served the governors of the provinces went forward first. Then Ben-Hadad was informed by scouts that he had sent out, "Men are coming out from Samaria."
 
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 \v 18 Ben-Hadad said, "Whether they have come out for peace or war, take them alive."
-\v 19 So the young officers who served the governors of the districts went out of the city and the army followed them.
+\v 19 So the young officers who served the governors of the provinces went out of the city and the army followed them.
 
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 \v 20 Each man killed his opponent. The Arameans fled and Israel pursued them. Ben-Hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse along with some horsemen.
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 \v 31 Ben-Hadad's servants said to him, "See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."
-\v 32 So they put sackcloth on their waists and ropes around their heads and then went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad said, 'Please let me live.'" Ahab said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
+\v 32 So they girded sackcloth on their waists and ropes around their heads and then went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad said, 'Please let me live.'" Ahab said, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
 
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 \v 33 Now the men were listening for any sign from Ahab, so they quickly answered him, "Yes, your brother Ben-Hadad is alive." Then Ahab said, "Go and bring him." Then Ben-Hadad came to him, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
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 \v 7 So Jezebel his wife replied to him, "Do you not still rule the kingdom of Israel? Get up and eat; let your heart be happy. I will obtain for you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
 
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-\v 8 So Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and to the wealthy who sat with him in meetings, and who lived near Naboth.
+\v 8 So Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and to the nobles who sat with him in meetings, and who lived near Naboth.
 \v 9 She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth above the people.
-\v 10 Also place two dishonest men with him and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king.'" Then take him out and stone him to death.
+\v 10 Also place two worthless men with him and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king.'" Then take him out and stone him to death.
 
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