Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
Parallel translations
- WEB They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
- KJV And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
- NKJV Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
- NASB They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;
- NLT Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
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They enter a covenant to seek the Lord with all their heart and soul. Renewed devotion is sealed in a wholehearted, deliberate commitment.
Overview
The people bind themselves by covenant to pursue God totally, echoing the Shema's call to love God with all the heart and soul. This wholehearted seeking is the spiritual heart of Asa's reform. It anticipates the new covenant, in which God writes His law on the heart and enables true, inward devotion.
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Cross-references · 16
- Acts 24:14I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
- Deut 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- 2 Chr 23:16Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people.
- 2 Chr 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.
- Jer 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- 2 Chr 15:4But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
- Deut 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Neh 9:38In view of all this, we make a binding agreement, putting it in writing and sealing it with the names of our leaders, Levites, and priests.”
- Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with them at Horeb.
- 2 Chr 34:31–32So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
- Neh 10:29hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
- Jer 50:5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- 2 Kgs 23:3So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
- Deut 29:12so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
- 2 Cor 8:5And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.
- 1 Kgs 8:48and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
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