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2 Chronicles 15:12

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
2 Chronicles 15:12 · King James Version
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  • WEB They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
  • BSB Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
  • Deut 10:12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
  • 2 Chr 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.
  • 2 Chr 29:10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
  • Jer 29:12–13Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
  • 2 Chr 15:4But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
  • Deut 4:29But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
  • Neh 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
  • Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
  • 2 Chr 34:31–32And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
  • Neh 10:29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
  • Jer 50:5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
  • 2 Kgs 23:3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
  • Deut 29:12That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
  • 2 Cor 8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
  • 1 Kgs 8:48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

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Temple, priesthood, and the repeated need for a faithful king who seeks the LORD all point past every imperfect reign to the King and Temple who finally and fully dwell with God's people.

How 2 Chronicles 15:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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