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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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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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 ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- 2 Chr 23:16Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
- Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
- 2 Chr 15:12–13Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
- 2 Kgs 23:26Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.
- Jer 34:15Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
- 2 Kgs 23:3So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
- Neh 9:38In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
- 2 Cor 8:5And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.
- 2 Chr 6:7–8Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chr 34:30–32And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
- Jer 34:18And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
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