1 Chronicles 28:9

David charged Solomon to know and serve God wholeheartedly, warning that the Lord searches all hearts and is found by those who seek him. It is a tender, weighty exhortation to genuine devotion.

Cross-references · 40

• Jer 29:13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
• Jas 4:8–11Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Matt 7:7–8Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
• 1 Kgs 8:61So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”
• Prov 2:1–6My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
• 2 Chr 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Ps 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
• 1 Sam 16:7But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
• John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
• Jer 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
• Ps 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
• Heb 10:38–39But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
• Jer 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
• John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
• Hos 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
• 1 Chr 29:17–19I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
• Jer 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
• 2 Kgs 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
• Jer 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
• 1 Chr 29:9And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholeheartedly. And King David also rejoiced greatly.
• 1 Kgs 8:39be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—
• 1 Kgs 9:6–9But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
• Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
• Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
• Ps 101:2I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
• Ps 7:9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
• Deut 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
• 2 Kgs 22:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
• Heb 12:28Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
• Acts 1:24And they prayed, “Lord, You know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two You have chosen
• Job 36:11–12If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
• Rom 1:28–29Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Deut 4:35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
• John 21:17Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
• John 2:25He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

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