2 Chronicles 32:13

32:13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors ¹  have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power? ² 

2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ³  in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ⁵  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ⁶  and repudiate their sinful practices, ⁷  then I will respond ⁸  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.

² tn Heb “hand.”

³ tn Or “soul.”

⁴ tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

⁵ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

⁶ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

⁷ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

⁸ tn Heb “hear.”

⁹ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.