2 Chronicles 29:10

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

Darby Translation

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

9And behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

11My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before him, to do service unto him, and to be his ministers and incense-burners.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:3And the king stood on the dais, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [his] heart, and with all [his] soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

2 Chronicles 6:7And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house unto the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the people of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 34:30And the king went up into the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of Jehovah.

Nehemiah 8:6And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen! with lifting up of their hands; and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.

Jeremiah 3:5Will he keep [his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art [so] determined.

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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