Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
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- KJV 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.
- BSB Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
- NKJV “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.
- NASB Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that His burning anger may turn away from us.
- NLT But now I will make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.
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Quick answer
Hezekiah resolves in his heart to make a covenant with the LORD so that his fierce anger may turn away. The king seeks national renewal through renewed covenant commitment.
Overview
Hezekiah purposes to bind the nation afresh to God in covenant, trusting that repentance and obedience will avert divine wrath. His heartfelt resolve shows that true reform flows from inward conviction, not mere outward ceremony. This longing for restored covenant relationship finds its lasting fulfillment in the new covenant established in Christ's blood, by which God's anger is forever turned away.
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Cross-references · 12
- Jer 50:5They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
- 2 Chr 23:16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
- Ezra 10:3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
- 2 Chr 15:12–13They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
- 2 Kgs 23:26Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
- Jer 34:15You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;
- 2 Kgs 23:3The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
- Neh 9:38Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
- 2 Cor 8:5This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
- 2 Chr 6:7–8Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chr 34:30–32The king went up to Yahweh’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s house.
- Jer 34:18I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:
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