2 Tawarikh 30:20

30:20 The Lord responded favorably ¹  to Hezekiah and forgave ²  the people.

2 Tawarikh 21:18

21:18 After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease. ³ 

2 Tawarikh 36:16

36:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, ⁴  and ridiculed his prophets. ⁵  Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 32:31

32:31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, ⁷  God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. ⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 32:24-25

Hezekiah’s Shortcomings and Accomplishments

32:24 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. ⁹  He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed. ¹⁰  32:25 But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem. ¹¹ 

2 Tawarikh 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ¹²  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ¹³  and repudiate their sinful practices, ¹⁴  then I will respond ¹⁵  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ¹⁷  afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

[30:20]  ¹ tn Heb “listened.”

[30:20]  ² tn Heb “healed.”

[21:18]  ³ tn Heb “in his intestines with an illness [for which] there was no healer.”

[36:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “his words.”

[36:16]  ⁵ tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.

[36:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “until the anger of the Lord went up against his people until there was no healer.”

[32:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”

[32:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”

[32:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

[32:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he spoke to him and a sign he gave to him.”

[32:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “but not according to the benefit [given] to him did Hezekiah repay, for his heart was high, and there was anger against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.”

[32:25]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:14]  ¹² tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

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

[7:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹⁶ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[26:21]  ¹⁷ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.