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They have lived in it, and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying, “If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgement,[a] or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, for your name is in this house, and cry to you in our distress, and you will hear and save.” 10 See now, the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:9 Or the sword of judgement

They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary(A) for your Name, saying, ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine,(B) we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’

10 “But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt;(C) so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.

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