2 Tawarikh 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 Tawarikh 29:31

29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves ⁶  to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings ⁷  to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so ⁸  brought burnt sacrifices.

2 Tawarikh 31:2

The People Contribute to the Temple

31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks ⁹  – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ¹¹  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ¹²  returned home humiliated. ¹³  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ¹⁴  struck him down with the sword.

[7:14]  ¹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ² tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ³ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ⁵ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[29:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “filled your hand.”

[29:31]  ⁷ tn Or “tokens of thanks.”

[29:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”

[31:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”

[31:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the Lord.”

[32:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”