2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ¹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ²  and repudiate their sinful practices, ³  then I will respond ⁴  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 16:12

16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. ⁶  Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 24:22

24:22 King Joash disregarded ⁸  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ⁹  son. As Zechariah ¹⁰  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 34:26

34:26 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

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¹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

² tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

³ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

⁵ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

⁶ tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

⁷ tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

⁸ tn Heb “did not remember.”

⁹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.