You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;
    (A)repair its breaches, for it totters.

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14 if my people who are called by my name (A)humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
    for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.

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16 (A)I will seek the lost, (B)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and (C)the fat and the strong I will destroy.[a] I will feed them in justice.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 34:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate I will watch over

38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like (A)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord.

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26 (A)Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when (B)the Lord binds up (C)the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

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Then the earth (A)reeled and rocked;
    the foundations also of the mountains trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.

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51 And behold, (A)the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And (B)the earth shook, and the rocks were split.

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10 (A)The mountains saw you and writhed;
    the raging waters swept on;
(B)the deep gave forth its voice;
    (C)it lifted its hands on high.

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(A)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
(B)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about (C)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

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17 (A)For I will restore (B)health to you,
    and (C)your wounds I will heal,
declares the Lord,
because (D)they have called you an outcast:
    (E)‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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10 (A)But the Lord is the true God;
    (B)he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
    and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

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24 I looked on (A)the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
    and all the hills moved to and fro.

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25 Therefore (A)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and (B)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (C)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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who (A)shakes the earth out of its place,
    and (B)its pillars tremble;

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For the head of Syria is (A)Damascus,
    and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

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(A)Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,

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32 who looks on the earth and it (A)trembles,
    who (B)touches the mountains and they smoke!

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40 You have (A)breached all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

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18 For he wounds, but he (A)binds up;
    he (B)shatters, but his hands heal.

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“Then (A)the earth reeled and rocked;
    (B)the foundations of the heavens trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.

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11 And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf,[a] saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.” 13 And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, (A)you shall not see my face unless you first bring (B)Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.” 14 Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, (C)for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:12 Or where he was; Septuagint at Hebron

Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel

But (A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (B)Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel. 10 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. 11 (C)And the time that David was king in Hebron over (D)the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

The Battle of Gibeon

12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at (E)the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. 14 And Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.” 15 Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 16 And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim,[a] which is at Gibeon. 17 And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

18 And the (F)three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was (G)as swift of foot as a wild gazelle. 19 And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. 20 Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.” 21 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. 22 And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?” 23 But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him (H)in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.

24 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. 25 And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill. 26 Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?” 27 And Joab said, “As God lives, if (I)you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.” 28 So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.

29 And Abner and his men went all that night through (J)the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to (K)Mahanaim. 30 Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel. 31 But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner's men. 32 And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:16 Helkath-hazzurim means the field of sword-edges

For thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Yet once more, in a little while, (B)I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and (C)I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.

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