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.
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.
- 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 shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
- 2 Chr 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
- Ezra 10:3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
- 2 Chr 15:12–13And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
- 2 Kgs 23:26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
- Jer 34:15And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
- 2 Kgs 23:3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
- Neh 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
- 2 Cor 8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
- 2 Chr 6:7–8Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
- 2 Chr 34:30–32And the king went up into the house of the LORD, 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 that was found in the house of the LORD.
- Jer 34:18And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
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