2 Chronicles 7:14
Context7:14 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 34:25
Context34:25 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices 6 to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. 7 My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”
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 Or “burned incense.”
7 tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The present translation assumes this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods”). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”