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.
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Gill's Exposition
My sons,.... So, as the father of his people, he speaks of them in the most tender and affectionate manner:
be not now negligent; backward to this good work, slothful, sluggish, and remiss in it;…
Adam Clarke
To make a covenant - To renew the covenant under which the whole people were constantly considered, and of which circumcision was the sign; and the spirit of which was, I will be your God: Ye shall be…
Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns,…
Cambridge Bible
a covenant Cp. 2Ch 15:12.
his fierce wrath R.V. his fierce anger.
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