2 And Jehovah began to send against him marauder bands of Chal·deʹans+ and marauder bands of Syrians* and marauder bands of Moʹab·ites+ and marauder bands of the sons of Amʹmon, and he kept sending them against Judah to destroy it, according to Jehovah’s word+ that he had spoken by means of his servants the prophets.

4 Then he went out from the land of the Chal·deʹans and took up residence in Haʹran. And from there, after his father died,+ [God]* caused him to change his residence to this land in which YOU now dwell.+