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2 Chronicles 8:5-7
GOD’S WORD Translation
2 Chronicles 8:5-7
GOD’S WORD Translation
5 He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon into cities fortified with walls, double-door gates, and bars. 6 ⌞He also rebuilt⌟ Baalath and all the storage cities that he owned. He built all the cities for his chariots, all the cities for his war horses, and whatever ⌞else⌟ he wanted to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or the entire territory that he governed.
7 The Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left ⌞in the land⌟ because the Israelites had not been able to destroy them.[a] They were not Israelites,
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- 8:7 “because the Israelites….” This clause has been moved from verse 8 (in Hebrew) to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.
GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
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