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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter&#8212;Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They were from nations about which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told the Israelites, &#8220;You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.&#8221; Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, as the heart of David his father had been. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah&#8217;s illness. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses&#8212;the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil&#8212;his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, &#8220;What did those men say, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="content">&#8220;From a distant land,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. &#8220;They came from Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The prophet asked, &#8220;What did they see in your palace?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="content">&#8220;They saw everything in my palace,&#8221; Hezekiah said. &#8220;There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> you have spoken is good,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. For he thought, &#8220;Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, &#8220;Should you help the wicked and love</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and make alliances with</span></span></span><span class="content"> those who hate the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Because of this, the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on you. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What harmony is there between Christ and Belial</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Beliar</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Belial</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? </span></span></div>
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