2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ¹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ²  and repudiate their sinful practices, ³  then I will respond ⁴  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 18:12

18:12 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ⁶  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!” ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 20:26

20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where ⁸  they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah ⁹  to this very day.

2 Chronicles 24:6

24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ¹⁰  and said to him, “Why have you not made ¹¹  the Levites collect ¹²  from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 34:24

34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:30

34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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.

⁶ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

⁷ tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for there.”

¹² sn The name Berachah, which means “blessing” in Hebrew, is derived from the verbal root “to praise [or “to bless”],” which appears earlier in the verse.

¹⁶ tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

¹⁷ tn Heb “sought.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “bring.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”