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 respond⁴ from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.⁵

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer,⁶ ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors,⁷ who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.⁸ That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 20:9

20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack,⁹ judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple.¹⁰ We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will¹¹ hear and deliver us.’

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death.¹² His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.¹³

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire¹⁴ in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.¹⁵ He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.¹⁶

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 34:28

34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace.¹⁷ You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

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

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

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

⁴tn Heb “hear.”

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

⁶tn Heb “and they will say.”

⁷tn Heb “fathers.”

⁸tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

¹¹tn Heb “sword.”

¹²tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

¹³tn Or “so that you may.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

²¹tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

²²tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

²³tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

²⁶tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”