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2 Chronicles 15:12

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;
2 Chronicles 15:12 · New American Standard Bible
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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;
  • KJV And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD 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;
  • 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 to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
  • Deut 10:12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • 2 Chr 23:16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
  • 2 Chr 29:10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
  • Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
  • 2 Chr 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
  • Deut 4:29But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Neh 9:38Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”
  • Deut 29:1These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
  • 2 Chr 34:31–32The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, 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 that were written in this book.
  • Neh 10:29they joined with their brothers, 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 Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
  • Jer 50:5They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
  • 2 Kgs 23:3The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.
  • Deut 29:12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;
  • 2 Cor 8:5This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
  • 1 Kgs 8:48if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your 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.

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