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2 Chronicles 7:14

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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 22:6

Context
22:6 Joram 6  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 7  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah 8  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. 9 

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[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.

[7:14]  2 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  3 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  4 tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  5 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[22:6]  6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6]  7 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[22:6]  8 tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

[22:6]  9 tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.



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