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The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as ever opposed them, they destroyed and enslaved;
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but with their friends and those who rely on them they have kept friendship. They have subdued kings far and near, and as many as have heard of their fame have feared them.
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Those whom they wish to help and to make kings, they make kings, and those whom they wish they depose; and they have been greatly exalted.
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Yet for all this not one of them has put on a crown or worn purple as a mark of pride,
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but they have built for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty senators constantly deliberate concerning the people, to govern them well.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.