2 Chronicles 29:10
New International Version
Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

New Living Translation
But now I will make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

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

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
“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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

NASB 1995
“Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

NASB 1977
“Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now it is in my heart to cut a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

Amplified Bible
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant (solemn agreement) with the LORD God of Israel, so that His burning anger will turn away from us.

Christian Standard Bible
It is in my heart now to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel so that his burning anger may turn away from us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is in my heart now to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel so that His burning anger may turn away from us.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English


Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore it is now in my heart to make a covenant, a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce wrath from us.

Contemporary English Version
So I have decided to renew our agreement with the LORD God of Israel. Maybe then he will stop being so angry with us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.

English Revised Version
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now I intend to make a pledge to the LORD God of Israel so that he may turn his burning anger away from us.

Good News Translation
"I have now decided to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that he will no longer be angry with us.

International Standard Version
I'm intending to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel so his burning anger may turn away from us.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that His fierce anger may turn away from us.

Literal Standard Version
Now [it is] with my heart to make a covenant before YHWH, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger turns back from us.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
Now, I intend to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his burning anger may turn away from us.

NET Bible
Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

New Revised Standard Version
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
'Now -- with my heart -- to make a covenant before Jehovah, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from us.

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Context
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
9For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity. 10Now 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. 11Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 23:16
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD's people.

2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 34:31
So 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.

Ezra 10:14
Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us."


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Now it is

2 Chronicles 6:7,8
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel…

2 Chronicles 15:12,13
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; …

2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.

2 Chronicles 34:30-32
And 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…

that his fierce

2 Kings 23:3,26
And 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…

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2 Chronicles 29
1. Hezekiah's good reign.
3. He restores religion
5. He exhorts the Levites
12. They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the house of God
20. Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices,
24. wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests














(10) Now it is in mine heart.--See for this phrase and construction 1Chronicles 22:7; 1Chronicles 28:2; 2Chronicles 6:7.

To make a covenant with.--The preposition is for. (See Note on 2Chronicles 21:7.)

Turn away.--Literally, return (Isaiah 5:25). "That his fierce wrath may turn away from Israel" (Numbers 25:4). . . .

Verse 10. - To make a covenant; Hebrew, לִכְרות בְּרְית (see 2 Chronicles 15:12, and our note there).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now
עַתָּה֙ (‘at·tāh)
Adverb
Strong's 6258: At this time

it is in
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

my heart
לְבָבִ֔י (lə·ḇā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

to make
לִכְר֣וֹת (liḵ·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

a covenant
בְּרִ֔ית (bə·rîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with the LORD,
לַיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

the God
אֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

so that His fierce anger
חֲר֥וֹן (ḥă·rō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2740: A burning of anger

will turn away
וְיָשֹׁ֥ב (wə·yā·šōḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from us.
מִמֶּ֖נּוּ (mim·men·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of


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