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28 A person without self-control
    is like a city with broken-down walls.

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28 Like a city whose walls are broken through
    is a person who lacks self-control.

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32 Better to be patient than powerful;
    better to have self-control than to conquer a city.

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32 Better a patient person than a warrior,
    one with self-control than one who takes a city.

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24 Don’t befriend angry people
    or associate with hot-tempered people,

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Saying 3

24 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
    do not associate with one easily angered,

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They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”

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They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.(A)

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Then Hezekiah worked hard at repairing all the broken sections of the wall, erecting towers, and constructing a second wall outside the first. He also reinforced the supporting terraces[a] in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:5 Hebrew the millo. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

Then he worked hard repairing all the broken sections of the wall(A) and building towers on it. He built another wall outside that one and reinforced the terraces[a](B) of the City of David. He also made large numbers of weapons(C) and shields.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Or the Millo

30 Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. “You stupid son of a whore!”[a] he swore at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want him to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?

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  1. 20:30 Hebrew You son of a perverse and rebellious woman.

30 Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

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17 You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He’s so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”

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17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

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