25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(A)

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25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

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16 When I tried to understand(A) all this,
    it troubled me deeply

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16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

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13 They are to be stoned(A) or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn(B) sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”(C)

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13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

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25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing[a] and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 20:25 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts corpses

25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

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Psalm 63[a]

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,(A)
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 63:1 In Hebrew texts 63:1-11 is numbered 63:2-12.

63 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

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But as for me, I am poor and needy;(A)
    come quickly to me,(B) O God.
You are my help(C) and my deliverer;(D)
    Lord, do not delay.(E)

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But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

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From birth(A) I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.(B)
    I will ever praise(C) you.

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By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

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13 But I cry to you for help,(A) Lord;
    in the morning(B) my prayer comes before you.(C)

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13 But unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

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They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king(A) to lead[a](B) us, such as all the other nations(C) have.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 8:5 Traditionally judge; also in verses 6 and 20

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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31 so that they will fear you(A) and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

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31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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Joseph’s Dreams

37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed,(A) the land of Canaan.(B)

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37 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

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29 When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.(A)

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29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

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The Offer of Life or Death

11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.(A)

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11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

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