53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,(A) just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

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They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry(A) with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

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24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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He followed the ways of the kings of Israel(A) and even sacrificed his son(B) in the fire, engaging in the detestable(C) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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and followed the practices of the nations(A) the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

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11 At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger.

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15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant(A) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols(B) and themselves became worthless.(C) They imitated the nations(D) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

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33 They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

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12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver(A) them—the gods of Gozan,(B) Harran,(C) Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

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17 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

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He did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices(B) of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil(A) than the nations(B) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

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17 So David’s fame(A) spread throughout every land, and the Lord made all the nations fear(B) him.

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Give praise(A) to the Lord, proclaim his name;
    make known among the nations(B) what he has done.

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24 Declare his glory(A) among the nations,
    his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

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26 For all the gods of the nations are idols,
    but the Lord made the heavens.(A)

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28 Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.(A)

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31 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;(A)
    let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!(B)

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35 Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior;(A)
    gather us and deliver us from the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name,
    and glory in your praise.”

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21 And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem(A) a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?

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11 King David dedicated these articles to the Lord, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom(A) and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.(B)

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David said, “My son Solomon is young(A) and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor(B) in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before his death.

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and said:

Lord, the God of our ancestors,(A) are you not the God who is in heaven?(B) You rule over all the kingdoms(C) of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.(D)

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