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2 Chronicles 15:4
4But when they were in trouble, they turned to the Lord, Israel's God. They asked him to help them and he answered them.
2 Chronicles 15:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
- New International Version (NIV)But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.
Context of 2 Chronicles 15:4
2Azariah went to meet King Asa. He said to him, ‘Listen to me Asa and all you people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord will be with you while you are faithful to him. If you ask him for help, he will answer you. But if you turn away from him, he will turn away from you. 3For a long time, the Israelites did not serve the true God. They did not have any priests to teach them what was right. They did not know God's law. But when they were in trouble, they turned to the Lord, Israel's God. They asked him to help them and he answered them. 5At that time it was not safe to travel very far. There was too much trouble among the people of other countries. 6One nation would attack and destroy another nation. The people of one city destroyed other cities. God caused all this trouble to happen to those people.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 152 Chronicles 15:4 word by word
וַיָּ֙שָׁב֙ בַּצַּר־ל֔וֹ עַל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיְבַקְשֻׁ֖הוּ וַיִּמָּצֵ֥א לָהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 15:4
- Deuteronomy 4:29But even in those places, if you look for the Lord your God, you will find him. If you want to serve him with everything that you think and with everything that you do, you will find him.
- Jeremiah 3:9She was not ashamed of what she was doing. She worshipped idols made of wood and stone. She made the land unclean because she was not faithful to me.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the only true God. He is the God who is alive. He is the King who rules for ever. When he is angry, the earth shakes. None of the nations can stop his anger.
- Psalms 106:44But the Lord still saw when they were in trouble. He answered them when they called to him for help.
- Hosea 6:1‘Listen! We should return to serve the Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but now he will make us well again. He has hurt us, but now he will make our wounds better.
- Hosea 14:1Israel's people, return to the Lord your God! Your sins have caused you to fall down.
- 2 Chronicles 15:15All Judah's people were happy to make this promise, because they truly wanted to serve the Lord. They wanted him to help them and he answered them. After that, the Lord made them safe from their enemies all around them.
- Isaiah 55:6Come to serve the Lord now, while he lets you find him. Call out to him for help, while he is near you.
- Isaiah 65:1The Lord says, ‘I was ready to answer, even when my people did not ask me anything. I showed myself to people who were not even looking for me. I said, “Look! Here I am!” to a nation who did not even use my name to pray.
- Romans 10:20Also, this is what Isaiah said very bravely: ‘God says: Those people who were not looking for me have found me. I showed myself to people who were not even asking about me.’
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15:4
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6The dark times, caused by not knowing God (see Hosea 3:4–5), likely refer to the period of the judges.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-63-6. Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, &c.--Some think that Azariah was referring to the sad and disastrous condition to which superstition and idolatry had brought the neighboring kingdom of Israel. His words should rather be taken in a wider sense, for it seems manifest that the prophet had his eye upon many periods in the national history, when the people were in the state described--a state of spiritual destitution and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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