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 shall seek me, and find me, when you shall 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 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh 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 Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
• 1 Kgs 8:61“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”
• Prov 2:1–6My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
• 2 Chr 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and 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 will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
• 1 Sam 16:7But 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.”
• John 4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
• Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
• Ps 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
• Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Jer 9:24But 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 in these things I delight,” says Yahweh.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• Hos 4:1Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• 1 Chr 29:17–19I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
• Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
• 2 Kgs 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.
• Exod 15:2Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
• Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
• 1 Chr 29:9Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
• 1 Kgs 8:39then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
• 1 Kgs 9:6–9But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Heb 4:13There 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.
• Ps 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
• Ps 7:9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
• Deut 31:21It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”
• 2 Kgs 22:2He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
• Heb 12:28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
• Acts 1:24They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
• Job 36:11–12If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
• Rom 1:28–29Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Deut 4:35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
• John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
• John 2:25and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

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