2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

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In The King James Version

Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

In Context

9For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

11My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:3And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

2 Chronicles 6:7Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 23:16And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

2 Chronicles 34:30And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

Nehemiah 8:6And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.

Jeremiah 3:5Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 29:2-12

Hezekiah's Good Reign. ( b. c. 726.) 1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that David his father had done. 3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord , and repaired them. 4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together… Read the whole commentary →

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