2 Chronicles 29:10
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New International Version (©2011)
Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But now I will make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
It is in my heart now to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel so that His burning anger may turn away from us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'm intending to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel so his burning anger may turn away from us.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Now I intend to make a pledge to the LORD God of Israel so that he may turn his burning anger away from us.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

American King James Version
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.

Darby Bible 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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Now it is in my 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 Yahweh, 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:1-19 When Hezekiah came to the crown, he applied at once to work reform. Those who begin with God, begin at the right end of their work, and it will prosper accordingly. Those that turn their backs upon God's ordinances, may truly be said to forsake God himself. There are still such neglects, if the word be not duly read and opened, for that was signified by the lighting the lamps, and also if prayers and praise be not offered up, for that was signified by the burning incense. Neglect of God's worship was the cause of the calamities they had lain under. The Lord alone can prepare the heart of man for vital godliness: when much good is done in a little time, the glory must be ascribed to him; and all who love him or the souls of men, will rejoice therein. Let those that do good work, learn to do it well.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - To make a covenant; Hebrew, לִכְרות בְּרְית (see 2 Chronicles 15:12, and our note there).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel,.... To renew one, as Asa and Jehoiada had done, promising to serve the Lord, and worship him according to his will:

that his fierce wrath might be turned from us; under the tokens of which they still continued, and might expect it to break forth in other instances, unless a reformation was made.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10, 11. Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God—Convinced of the sin and bitter fruits of idolatry, Hezekiah intended to reverse the policy of his father, and to restore, in all its ancient purity and glory, the worship of the true God. His commencement of this resolution at the beginning of his reign attests his sincere piety. It also proves the strength of his conviction that righteousness exalteth a nation; for, instead of waiting till his throne was consolidated, he devised measures of national reformation at the beginning of his reign and vigorously faced all the difficulties which, in such a course, he had to encounter, after the people's habits had so long been moulded to idolatry. His intentions were first disclosed to this meeting of the priests and Levites—for the agency of these officials was to be employed in carrying them into effect.

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Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
…9For, see, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. 11My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that you should minister to him, and burn incense. …

2 Chronicles 23:16 Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king would be the LORD's people.
2 Chronicles 30:8 Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the LORD. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 34:31 The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD--to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
Ezra 10:14 Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us."