diff --git a/10-2SA/07.usfm b/10-2SA/07.usfm index a6ffcfab..64c272c2 100644 --- a/10-2SA/07.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/07.usfm @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ \s5 \v 8 Now then, tell my servant David, "This is what Yahweh of hosts says: 'I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, so that you would be ruler over my people Israel. -\v 9 I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make a great name for you, like the name of the great ones who are on the earth. +\v 9 I have been with you wherever you went. I have cut off all your enemies +from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the +great ones of the earth. \s5 \v 10 I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them there, so that they may live in their own place and be troubled no more. No longer will wicked people oppress them, as they did before, -\v 11 as they were doing from the days that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, I, Yahweh, declare to you that I will make you a house. +\v 11 as they were doing from the days that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Now I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, I, Yahweh declare to you that I will make you a house. \s5 \v 12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up a descendant after you, one who will come out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. @@ -36,13 +38,13 @@ \s5 \p \v 18 Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh; he said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my family that you have brought me to this point? -\v 19 And this was a small thing in your sight, Lord Yahweh. You have even spoken about your servant's family for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, Lord Yahweh! +\v 19 Now this was a small thing in your sight, Lord Yahweh. You have even spoken about your servant's family for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, Lord Yahweh! \v 20 What more can I, David, say to you? You have honored your servant, Lord Yahweh. \s5 \v 21 For your word's sake, and to fulfill your own purpose, you have done this great thing and revealed it to your servant. -\v 22 Therefore you are great, Lord Yahweh. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, just as we have heard with our own ears. -\v 23 And what nation is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom you, God, went and rescued for yourself? You did this so that they would become a people for yourself, to make a name for yourself, and to do great and fearful deeds for your land. You drove out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you rescued from Egypt. +\v 22 Therefore you are great, Lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as we have heard with our own ears. +\v 23 What nation is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom you, God, went and rescued for yourself? You did this so that they would become a people for yourself, to make a name for yourself, and to do great and fearful deeds for your land. You drove out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you rescued from Egypt. \s5 \v 24 You established Israel as your own people forever, and you, Yahweh, became their God. diff --git a/10-2SA/09.usfm b/10-2SA/09.usfm index 7d449e99..1abe9694 100644 --- a/10-2SA/09.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/09.usfm @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ \s5 \v 11 Then Ziba said to the king, "Your servant will do all that my master the king commands his servant." The king added, "As for Mephibosheth he will eat at my table, as one of the king's sons." -\v 12 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth. +\v 12 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All who lived in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth. \v 13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, and he always ate at the king's table, though he was lame in both his feet. diff --git a/10-2SA/10.usfm b/10-2SA/10.usfm index 9f9242aa..f4504110 100644 --- a/10-2SA/10.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/10.usfm @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 15 And when the Arameans saw that they were being defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together again. +\v 15 When the Arameans saw that they were being defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together again. \v 16 Then Hadarezer sent for Aramean troops from beyond the Euphrates River. They came to Helam with Shobach, the commander of Hadarezer's army at their head. \s5 diff --git a/10-2SA/11.usfm b/10-2SA/11.usfm index 3e01f690..1d50232c 100644 --- a/10-2SA/11.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/11.usfm @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ \s5 \p \v 22 So the messenger left and went to David and told him everything that Joab had sent him to say. -\v 23 And the messenger said to David, "The enemy were stronger than we were at first; they came out to us into the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. +\v 23 Then the messenger said to David, "The enemy were stronger than we were at first; they came out to us into the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. \s5 -\v 24 And their shooters shot at your soldiers from off the wall, and some of the king's servants were killed, and your servant Uriah the Hittite was killed too." -\v 25 Then David said to the messenger, "Say this to Joab, 'Do not let this displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle even stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage Joab." +\v 24 Then their shooters shot at your soldiers from off the wall, and some of the king's servants were killed, and your servant Uriah the Hittite was killed too." +\v 25 Then David said to the messenger, "Say this to Joab, 'Do not let this displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle even stronger against the city, and overthrow it,' and encourage him." \s5 \p \v 26 So when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented deeply for her husband. diff --git a/10-2SA/12.usfm b/10-2SA/12.usfm index a032dd66..4d9e45e4 100644 --- a/10-2SA/12.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/12.usfm @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ \s5 \p \v 7 Then Nathan said to David, "You are that man! Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you out of the hand of Saul. -\v 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I would have given you many other things in addition. +\v 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your arms. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah. But if that had been too little, I would have given you many other things in addition. \s5 \v 9 So why have you despised the commands of Yahweh, so as to do what is evil in his sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your own wife. You killed him with the sword of the army of Ammon. diff --git a/10-2SA/13.usfm b/10-2SA/13.usfm index 544c4efc..b4d3b2a6 100644 --- a/10-2SA/13.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/13.usfm @@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ \v 10 So Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into my room that I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the bread that she had made, and brought it into the room of Amnon her brother. \v 11 When she had brought the food to him, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, sleep with me, my sister." \v 12 She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me, for nothing like this should be done in Israel. Do not do this appalling thing! + \s5 -\v 13 Where could I go to escape the shame this would place on my life? And this act will mark you as a shameless fool throughout Israel. Please, I ask you to speak to the king. He would allow you to marry me." +\v 13 How could I be rid of my shame? And what about you? You would be like one of the fools in Israel! Now, please speak to the king, for he would not keep me from you." \v 14 However Amnon would not listen to her. Since he was stronger than Tamar, he seized her and he slept with her. \s5 \p @@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ \p \v 34 Absalom fled away. A servant keeping watch raised his eyes and saw many people coming on the road on the hillside west of him. \v 35 Then Jehonadab said to the king, "Look, the king's sons are coming. It is just as your servant said." -\v 36 So it came about as soon as he had finished talking that the king's sons arrived and raised their voices and wept. And the king and all his servants also wept bitterly. +\v 36 So it came about when he finished speaking, the king's sons arrived and raised their voices and wept. The king and all his servants also wept bitterly. \s5 \p diff --git a/10-2SA/14.usfm b/10-2SA/14.usfm index 41085495..c4f4af71 100644 --- a/10-2SA/14.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/14.usfm @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ \v 6 I, your servant, had two sons, and they fought together in the field, and there was no one to separate them. One struck the other and killed him. \s5 -\v 7 And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Hand over the man who struck his brother, so that we may put him to death, to pay for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would also destroy the heir. Thus they will put out the burning coal that I have left, and they will leave for my husband neither name nor descendant on the surface of the earth." +\v 7 Now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Hand over the man who struck his brother, so that we may put him to death, to pay for the life of his brother whom he killed.' So they would also destroy the heir. Thus they will put out the burning coal that I have left, and they will leave for my husband neither name nor descendant on the surface of the earth." \s5 \p diff --git a/10-2SA/15.usfm b/10-2SA/15.usfm index d01a89ff..05549c2b 100644 --- a/10-2SA/15.usfm +++ b/10-2SA/15.usfm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ \c 15 \p \v 1 It came about after this that Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, with fifty men to run before him. -\v 2 Absalom would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. When any man had a dispute to come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him and said, "From what city have you come?" And the man would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel." +\v 2 Absalom would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. When any man had a dispute to come to the king for judgment, Absalom called to him and said, "From what city have you come?" Then the man would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel." \s5 \v 3 So Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case is good and right, but there is no one empowered by the king to hear your case." @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ \v 34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, king, as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant,' then you will confuse Ahithophel's advice for me. \s5 -\v 35 And will you not have there with you Zadok and Abiathar the priests? So whatever you hear in the king's palace, you must tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. +\v 35 Will you not have the priests Zadok and Abiathar with you? So whatever you hear in the king's palace, you must tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. \v 36 See that they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son. You must send to me by their hand everything that you hear." \v 37 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city as Absalom arrived and entered into Jerusalem.