2 Kings 20:3
Hebrew Text— 2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.
Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.
He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.
Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,