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At that time the king of Edom[a] recovered the town of Elath for Edom.[b] He drove out the people of Judah and sent Edomites[c] to live there, as they do to this day.

King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria with this message: “I am your servant and your vassal.[d] Come up and rescue me from the attacking armies of Aram and Israel.” Then Ahaz took the silver and gold from the Temple of the Lord and the palace treasury and sent it as a payment to the Assyrian king.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:6a As in Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads Rezin king of Aram.
  2. 16:6b As in Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads Aram.
  3. 16:6c As in Greek version, Latin Vulgate, and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text; the other alternate reads Arameans.
  4. 16:7 Hebrew your son.

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