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      <div class="chapter ch44" data-usfm="PSA.44.1+PSA.44.2+PSA.44.3+PSA.44.4+PSA.44.5+PSA.44.6+PSA.44.7+PSA.44.8+PSA.44.9+PSA.44.10+PSA.44.11+PSA.44.12+PSA.44.13+PSA.44.14+PSA.44.15+PSA.44.16+PSA.44.17+PSA.44.18+PSA.44.19+PSA.44.20+PSA.44.21+PSA.44.22+PSA.44.23+PSA.44.24+PSA.44.25+PSA.44.26">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We have heard it with our ears, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">our ancestors have told us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">what you did in their days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With your hand you drove out the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and planted our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">you crushed the peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and made our ancestors flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was not by their sword that they won the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">nor did their arm bring them victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">it was your right hand, your arm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">and the light of your face, for you loved them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are my King and my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">who decrees</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">King, O God; / command</span></span></span><span class="content"> victories for Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through you we push back our enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">through your name we trample our foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I put no trust in my bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">my sword does not bring me victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but you give us victory over our enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">you put our adversaries to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In God we make our boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">and we will praise your name forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now you have rejected and humbled us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">you no longer go out with our armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You made us retreat before the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">and our adversaries have plundered us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You gave us up to be devoured like sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">and have scattered us among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You sold your people for a pittance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">gaining nothing from their sale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">the scorn and derision of those around us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You have made us a byword among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">the peoples shake their heads at us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I live in disgrace all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">and my face is covered with shame</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All this came upon us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">though we had not forgotten you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">we had not been false to your covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Our hearts had not turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">our feet had not strayed from your path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">you covered us over with deep darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If we had forgotten the name of our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">or spread out our hands to a foreign god,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">would not God have discovered it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">since he knows the secrets of the heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yet for your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">and forget our misery and oppression?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">We are brought down to the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">our bodies cling to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Rise up and help us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="content">rescue us because of your unfailing love.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the thirty-sixth year of Asa&#8217;s reign Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Asa then took the silver and gold out of the treasuries of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let there be a treaty between me and you,&#8221; he said, &#8220;as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:4 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Abel Beth Maakah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and all the store cities of Naphtali. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and abandoned his work. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using. With them he built up Geba and Mizpah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: &#8220;Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Were not the Cushites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">? Yet when you relied on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he delivered them into your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The events of Asa&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but only from the physicians. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jehoshaphat his son succeeded him as king and strengthened himself against Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">His heart was devoted to the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">With them were certain Levites&#8212;Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tob-Adonijah&#8212;and the priests Elishama and Jehoram. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they went around to all the towns of Judah and taught the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> fell on all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, so that they did not go to war against Jehoshaphat. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Some Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and silver as tribute, and the Arabs brought him flocks: seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and had large supplies in the towns of Judah. He also kept experienced fighting men in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Their enrollment by families was as follows:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">From Judah, commanders of units of 1,000:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">Adnah the commander, with 300,000 fighting men;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">next, Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">next, Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered himself for the service of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with 200,000.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From Benjamin:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="content">Eliada, a valiant soldier, with 200,000 men armed with bows and shields;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">next, Jehozabad, with 180,000 men armed for battle.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.</span></span></div>
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