Text -- 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NET)

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ch 7:14

¹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

² tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

³ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

⁵ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.