1 Kings Read Through TW

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 \v 23 Then the king said, "One of you says, 'This is my son who is alive, and your son is dead,' and the other says, 'No, your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"
 \v 24 The king said, "Bring me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.
-\v 25 Then the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to this woman, and half to the other."
+\v 25 Then the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to this woman and half to the other."
 
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 \v 26 Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king, for her heart was full of compassion for her son, and she said, "Oh, my master, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." But the other woman said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him."

11-1KI/04.usfm

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 \v 5 Azariah son of Nathan was over the officers. 
 Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and the king's friend.
 \v 6 Ahishar was over the household. 
-Adoniram son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.
+Adoniram son of Abda was over the men who were subjected to forced labor.
 
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11-1KI/05.usfm

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 \v 13 King Solomon conscripted labor out of all Israel. The forced laborers numbered thirty thousand men.
-\v 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts. One month they were in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was over the forced laborers.
+\v 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts. One month they were in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was over the men who were subjected to forced labor.
 
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 \v 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens and eighty thousand who were stonecutters in the mountains,

11-1KI/06.usfm

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 \v 16 He built twenty cubits onto the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this room to be the inner room, the most holy place.
 \v 17 The main hall, that is, the holy place that was in front of the most holy place, was forty cubits long.
-\v 18 There was cedar inside the house, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar inside. No stonework was seen there.
+\v 18 There was cedar inside the house, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar inside. No stonework was visible on the inside.
 
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 \v 19 Solomon prepared the inner room inside the house in order to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.

11-1KI/08.usfm

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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 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.
 
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11-1KI/09.usfm

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 \v 1 After Solomon had finished building the house of Yahweh and the king's palace, and after he had accomplished all that he wanted to do,
-\v 2 it happened that Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
+\v 2 and Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
 
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 \v 3 And Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your request that you have made before me. I have dedicated this house, which you have built, to myself, to put my name there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

11-1KI/14.usfm

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-\v 1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam fell sick.
+\v 1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became very sick.
 \v 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please arise and disguise yourself, so you will not be recognized as my wife, and go to Shiloh, because Ahijah the prophet is there; he is the one who spoke about me, saying that I would become king over these people.
 \v 3 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to Ahijah. He will tell you what will happen to the child."
 
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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 things that the nations did, which Yahweh drove out before the people of Israel.
+\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.
 
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11-1KI/16.usfm

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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 completely sweep away 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 killed him, 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, as soon as he had sat on his throne, he killed all the family of Baasha. He left alive not a single male child, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.
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 \v 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned only for seven days in Tirzah. Now the army was camped by Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
 \v 16 The army camped there heard it said, "Zimri has plotted and has killed the king." So that day in the camp, all Israel declared Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.
-\v 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
+\v 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
 
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 \v 18 So when Zimri saw that the city had been taken, he went into the fortress attached to the king's palace and set fire to the building over him; in this way he died in the flames. 
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 \v 25 Omri did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and acted more wickedly than all who had been before him.
-\v 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sins by which he led Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their idols.
+\v 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins by which he led Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to be angry with their worthless idols.
 
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 \v 27 As for the other matters concerning Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in The Book of the Events of the Kings of Israel?
-\v 28 So Omri slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria; Ahab his son became king in his place.
+\v 28 So Omri slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria and Ahab his son became king in his place.
 
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11-1KI/18.usfm

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-\v 1 So after many days the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land."
+\v 1 So after many days the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab and I will send rain on the land."
 \v 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab; now the famine was severe in Samaria.
 
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 \v 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the water springs and brooks. Perhaps we will find grass and save the horses and mules alive, so that we will not lose all the animals."
-\v 6 So they divided the land between them to pass through it and look for water. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way.
+\v 6 So they divided the land between them to pass through it and look for water. Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way.
 
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-\v 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab; he told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
-\v 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is it you, you troublemaker of Israel?"
+\v 16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him what Elijah said. And the king went to meet Elijah.
+\v 17 When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is it you? You troublemaker of Israel!"
 
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 \v 18 Elijah answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's family are the troublemakers by abandoning the commandments of Yahweh and by following the Baal idols.
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 \v 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me," and all the people came near to him. Then he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was lying in ruin.
 \v 31 Elijah took twelve stones, each stone representing one of the tribes of the sons of Jacob—it was to Jacob that the word of Yahweh had come, saying, "Your name will be Israel."
-\v 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he dug a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seeds.
+\v 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh and he dug a trench around the altar large enough to contain two seahs of seeds.
 
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 \v 33 Then he placed the wood for a fire and cut the bull in pieces, and he laid the pieces on the wood. And he said, "Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood."
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 \v 41 Elijah said to Ahab, "Get up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of much rain."
-\v 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Then Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
+\v 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Then Elijah went up to the top of Carmel, bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees.
 
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 \v 43 He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." His servant went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." So Elijah said, "Go again, seven times."
-\v 44 At the seventh time the servant said, "Look, there is a cloud going up from the sea, as small as a man's hand." Elijah replied, "Go up and say to Ahab, 'Make ready your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.'"
+\v 44 At the seventh time the servant said, "Look, there is a cloud going up from the sea, as small as a man's hand." Elijah replied, "Go up and say to Ahab, 'Make ready your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.'"
 
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 \v 45 It happened that in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode and went to Jezreel,

11-1KI/19.usfm

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-\v 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
+\v 1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
 \v 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of those dead prophets by tomorrow about this time."
 \v 3 When Elijah heard that, he arose and fled for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
 
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 \v 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. He requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough, now, Yahweh; take away my life, for I am no better than my dead ancestors."
-\v 5 So he lay down and slept under a broom tree; unexpectedly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."
+\v 5 So he lay down and slept under a broom tree. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."
 \v 6 Elijah looked, and near his head was bread that had been baked on coals and a jug of water. So he ate and drank and then lay down again.
 
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 \v 20 Then Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah; he said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." Then Elijah said to him, "Go back, but think about what I have done to you."
 
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-\v 21 So Elisha returned from Elijah and took the yoke of oxen, killed the animals, and cooked the meat with the wood from the ox yoke; then he gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, went after Elijah, and served him.
+\v 21 So Elisha returned from Elijah and took the yoke of oxen, killed the animals, and cooked the meat with the wood from the ox yoke. Then he gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose, went after Elijah and served him.
 
 
 

11-1KI/20.usfm

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-\v 1 Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army together; there were thirty-two lesser kings with him, and horses and chariots. He went up, besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
+\v 1 Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army together. There were thirty-two lesser kings with him, and horses and chariots. He went up, besieged Samaria and fought against it.
 \v 2 He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him, "Ben Hadad says this:
 \v 3 'Your silver and your gold are mine. Also your wives and children, the best ones, are now mine.'"
 
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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 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.
 
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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 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.
 
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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 districts went out of the city and the army followed them.
 
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-\v 20 They each killed his enemy, and the Arameans fled; Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse with some horsemen.
+\v 20 They each killed his enemy and the Arameans fled. Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse along with some horsemen.
 \v 21 Then the king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans in a great slaughter.
 
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 \v 22 So the prophet came to the king of Israel and said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself, and understand and plan what you are doing, because at the return of the year the king of Aram will come up against you again."
-\v 23 The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills. That is why they were stronger than we were. But now let us fight against them in the plain, and surely there we will be stronger than they.
+\v 23 The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their god is a god of the hills. That is why they were stronger than we were. But now let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they are.
 
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-\v 24 And do this, too: take the kings away, every one out of his command, and put army captains in their place.
+\v 24 And do this: remove the kings; take every one away from his command and put army captains in their place.
 \v 25 Muster an army like the army you lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot, and we will fight against them in the plain. Then surely we will be stronger than they are." So Ben Hadad listened to their advice and did as they recommended.
 
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11-1KI/21.usfm

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-\v 1 It later came about that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.
+\v 1 Now some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria.
 \v 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, so I can have it as a vegetable garden, because it is near my house. In exchange, I will give you a better vineyard, or, if you prefer, I will pay you its value in money."
 
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 \v 11 So the men of his city, the elders and the wealthy who live in his city, did as Jezebel had described to them, as was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
 \v 12 They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth above the people.
-\v 13 The two dishonest men came in and sat before Naboth; they testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death.
+\v 13 The two dishonest men came in and sat before Naboth; they testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed both God and the king." Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death.
 \v 14 Then the elders sent word to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned and is dead."
 
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 \v 20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" Elijah answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
 
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-\v 21 Yahweh says this to you: 'Look, I will bring disaster on you and will completely consume and cut off from you every male child and slave and free man in Israel.
+\v 21 Yahweh says this to you: 'See, I will bring disaster on you and will completely consume and cut off from you every male child and slave and free man in Israel.
 \v 22 I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked me to anger and have led Israel to sin.'
 
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-\v 23 Yahweh has also spoken concerning Jezebel, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.'
-\v 24 Anyone who belongs to Ahab and who dies in the city—the dogs will eat that person. And anyone who dies in the field—the birds of the sky will eat that person."
+\v 23 Yahweh has also spoken concerning Jezebel, saying, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel beside the wall of Jezreel.'
+\v 24 Anyone who belongs to Ahab and who dies in the city—the dogs will eat. And anyone who dies in the field—the birds of the sky will eat."
 
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 \v 25 There was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife incited to sin.

11-1KI/22.usfm

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 \v 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please seek direction from the word of Yahweh for what you should do first."
-\v 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Should I go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I not?" They said, "Attack, for the Lord will place it into the hand of the king."
+\v 6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Should I go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I not?" They said, "Attack, for the Lord will hand it over to the king."
 
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 \v 7 But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here yet another prophet of Yahweh from whom we might seek advice?"
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 \v 13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Now look, the words of the prophets declare good things to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like one of them and say good things."
 \v 14 Micaiah replied, "As Yahweh lives, it is what Yahweh says to me that I will say."
-\v 15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth Gilead for battle, or not?" Micaiah answered him, "Attack and win. Yahweh will place it into the hand of the king."
+\v 15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth Gilead for battle, or not?" Micaiah answered him, "Attack and win. Yahweh will hand it over to the king."
 
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 \v 16 Then the king said to him, "How many times must I require you to swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"
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 \v 34 But a certain man drew his bow at random and shot the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. Then Ahab said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded."
 
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-\v 35 The battle grew worse that day, and the king was held up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died in the evening. The blood ran out of his wound into the bottom of the chariot.
-\v 36 Then about the time the sun was going down, a cry went up throughout the army, saying, "Every man should go back to his city, and every man should go back to his region!"
+\v 35 The battle grew worse that day and the king was held up in his chariot facing the Arameans. He died in the evening. The blood ran out from his wound into the bottom of the chariot.
+\v 36 Then about the time the sun was going down, a cry went up throughout the army, saying, "Every man should go back to his city; and every man should go back to his region!"
 
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