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We have lived here and built a sacred house honoring Your reputation. Now we will remind You of Solomon’s words: “If we encounter disaster or disease from wars, judgment, pestilence, or famine, then we will come to this house where You are and where your reputation is honored and beg for Your help. You will hear our cries and rescue us.”

10 Now is the time to ask for Your help. Men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir (the region in Edom which You stopped Israel from destroying when they left Egypt)

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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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