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2 Chronicles 7:14

Context
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 21:10

Context
21:10 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. 6  At that same time Libnah also rebelled and freed themselves from Judah’s control 7  because Jehoram 8  rejected the Lord God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 29:15

Context

29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 9  of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:15

Context

30:15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 30:17

Context
30:17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 10  the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 11 

2 Chronicles 30:24

Context
30:24 King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep 12  for the assembly, while the officials supplied them 13  with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.

2 Chronicles 32:26

Context
32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 14 

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 “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”

7 tn Or “from Jehoram’s control”; Heb “from under his hand.” The pronominal suffix may refer to Judah in general or, more specifically, to Jehoram.

8 tn Heb “he.” This pronoun could refer to Judah, but the context focuses on Jehoram’s misdeeds. See especially v. 11.

9 tn Heb “words” (plural).

10 tn Heb “were over the slaughter of.”

11 tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the Lord.”

12 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tson, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.

13 tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

14 tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”



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