2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; 1  you removed 2  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” 3 

2 Chronicles 30:19

30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, 4  the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” 5 

2 Chronicles 31:21

31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. 6 

1 tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

2 tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

3 tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

4 tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”

5 tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”

6 tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”