2 Chronicles 29:10

Now, is it near my heart, to solemnise a covenant unto Yahweh, God of Israel,—that he may turn from him the glow of his anger.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 lo! our fathers have fallen by the sword, and, our sons and our daughters and our wives, are in captivity for this.

11My sons! now, do not be faulty,—for, of you, hath Yahweh made choice, to stand before him, and to wait upon him, and to be his attendants and burners of incense.

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Cross References

2 Kings 23:3And the king took his stand by the pillar, and solemnised a covenant before Yahweh—to follow Yahweh, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all [their] heart and with all [their] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant, written in this book. And all the people took their stand in the covenant.

2 Chronicles 6:7And so it came to pass, that it was near the heart of David my father,—to build a house, to the Name of Yahweh, God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 23:16And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant, between himself and all the people, and the king,—that they should become a people unto Yahweh.

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

Nehemiah 8:6And Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God,—and all the people responded, Amen! Amen! with the lifting up of their hands,—and they bent their heads and bowed themselves down unto Yahweh, with their faces to the ground.

Jeremiah 3:5Will he maintain his anger to times age-abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken thus but hast done wicked things and had thy 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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