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2Ch 34:27 — Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Because		"""Because,"" says the Targumist, ""thy heart was melted, and thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of the word of the LORD, meymra dyya, when thou didst hear His words, yath pithgamoi, against this place."" Here meymra, the personal word, is plainly distinguished from pithgam, a word spoken."
thine heart		2Ch 32:12,13; 2Ki 22:18,19; Psa 34:18; Psa 51:17; Isa 57:15; Isa 66:2; Eze 9:4; Eze 36:26
humble		2Ch 32:26; 2Ch 33:12,19; Jam 4:6-10
didst rend		2Ch 34:19; Jer 36:23,24
I have even		Psa 10:17; Isa 65:24

Correlating Passages

thine heart

	2Ch 32:12	Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
	2Ch 32:13	Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
	2Ki 22:18	But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [As touching] the words which thou hast heard;
	2Ki 22:19	Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.
	Psa 34:18	The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
	Psa 51:17	The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
	Isa 57:15	For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
	Isa 66:2	For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
	Eze 9:4	And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
	Eze 36:26	A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

humble

	2Ch 32:26	Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
	2Ch 33:12	And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
	2Ch 33:19	His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.
	Jam 4:6	But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
	Jam 4:7	Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
	Jam 4:8	Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
	Jam 4:9	Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
	Jam 4:10	Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

didst rend

	2Ch 34:19	And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
	Jer 36:23	And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth.
	Jer 36:24	Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

I have even

	Psa 10:17	LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
	Isa 65:24	And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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