2 Chronicles 29:10 “Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Isr…”

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

World English Bible

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

American Standard Version

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Geneva Bible 1599

Now I purpose to make a couenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turne away his fierce wrath from vs.

Darby Translation

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Young's Literal Translation

'Now — with my heart — to make a covenant before Jehovah, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from us.

Bible in Basic English

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

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Cross references

“Now it is”

2 Chronicles 6:7 2 Chronicles 6:8

2 Chronicles 6:7 · BSB

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:8 · BSB

But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.

“to make a covenant”

Jeremiah 50:5 2 Chronicles 23:16 Ezra 10:3 2 Chronicles 34:30–32 Jeremiah 34:15 2 Corinthians 8:5

Jeremiah 50:5 · BSB

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

2 Chronicles 23:16 · BSB

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.

Ezra 10:3 · BSB

So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the…

2 Chronicles 34:30–32 · BSB

And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Cove…

Jeremiah 34:15 · BSB

Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.

2 Corinthians 8:5 · BSB

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, through the will of God.

“that his fierce”

2 Kings 23:3 2 Kings 23:26

2 Kings 23:3 · BSB

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant t…

2 Kings 23:26 · BSB

Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.

11Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

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