{"id":11350,"date":"2022-09-24T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-714\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:00:03","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-714\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 7:14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 2Ch 7:12]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(14) <strong>My people, which are called by my name.<\/strong>See margin; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 6:33<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Amo. 9:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer. 14:9<\/span>. The sense is: which are dedicated to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humble themselves.<\/strong><span class='bible'>Lev. 26:41<\/span>, in a similar context.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seek my face.<\/strong><span class='bible'>Psa. 24:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Psa. 27:8<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn from their wicked ways.<\/strong><span class='bible'>Hos. 6:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa. 6:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer. 25:5<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heal their land.<\/strong>Ps. Ix. 4.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 14. <strong> And turn from their wicked ways.<\/strong> ] This is <em> optima et aptissima poenitentia,<\/em> saith Luther, the best repentance. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And will heal their land.<\/strong> ] Of the wounds and bloody welts that my judgments have left upon it.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>which are called by My name = upon whom My name is called. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>my people: Isa 63:19 <\/p>\n<p>which are called by my name: Heb. upon whom my name is called <\/p>\n<p>humble: 2Ch 6:37-39, 2Ch 33:12, 2Ch 33:13, 2Ch 33:18, 2Ch 33:19, Lev 26:40, Lev 26:41, Deu 4:29, Deu 4:30, Deu 30:1-6, Eze 33:11, Jam 4:9, Jam 4:10 <\/p>\n<p>and pray: Act 9:11 <\/p>\n<p>seek my face: Isa 45:19, Lam 3:40, Lam 3:41 <\/p>\n<p>turn from: Pro 28:13, Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7, Isa 59:20, Eze 18:27-30 <\/p>\n<p>will I hear: 2Ch 6:27, 2Ch 6:30, 2Ch 6:39 <\/p>\n<p>heal their land: Psa 60:2, Jer 8:22, Jer 33:6, Jer 51:9 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 48:16 &#8211; my name Exo 10:3 &#8211; humble Num 6:27 &#8211; put my Deu 28:10 &#8211; called Jdg 10:16 &#8211; they put 1Ki 8:30 &#8211; forgive 2Ch 30:9 &#8211; if ye turn Eze 33:12 &#8211; as for Dan 9:4 &#8211; made Hos 5:15 &#8211; till Joe 2:12 &#8211; turn Amo 4:7 &#8211; I have Mat 5:3 &#8211; the poor<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>2Ch 7:14. If my people shall humble themselves, and pray, &amp;c.  Thus national repentance and reformation are required. God expects, that if his people, who are called by his name, have dishonoured his name by their iniquity, they should honour it by accepting the punishment of their iniquity. They must humble themselves under his hand, must pray for the removal of the judgment, must seek his face and favour: and yet all this will not be sufficient, unless they turn from their wicked ways, and return to him from whom they have revolted. National mercy is then promised, Then will I hear from heaven, &amp;c.  God will first forgive their sin, which brought the judgment upon them, and then will heal their land, and redress their grievances.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will {e} heal their land.<\/p>\n<p>(e) I will cause the pestilence to cease and destroy the beasts that hurt the fruit of the earth, and send rain in due season.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. [See comments on 2Ch 7:12]. Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible (14) My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-chronicles-714\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 7:14&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}