2 Chronicles 15:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And they entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And they entered into a covenant, to seek Yahweh, God of their fathers,—with all their heart, and with all their soul;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And they made a couenant to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And they entred into a couenant to seeke the LORD God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soule:
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And they entered into a covenant to pray to the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And he entered into a covenant that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh Elohim of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; |
And they entered
935 {0935} Primeבּוֹאbow'{bo}
A primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
into a covenant
1285 {1285} Primeבְּרִיתb@riyth{ber-eeth'}
From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh).
to seek
1875 {1875} Primeדּרשׁdarash{daw-rash'}
A primitive root; properly to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication to seek or ask; specifically to worship.
z8800 <8800> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 4888
x853 (0853) Complementאֵת'eth{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
Yähwè
יָהוֶה
3068 {3068} PrimeיְהֹוָהY@hovah{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
´Élöhîm
אֱלֹהִים
430 {0430} Primeאֱלֹהִים'elohiym{el-o-heem'}
Plural of H0433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative.
of their fathers
1 {0001} Primeאָב'ab{awb}
A primitive word; father in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application.
with all
x3605 (3605) Complementכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
their heart
3824 {3824} Primeלֵבָבlebab{lay-bawb'}
From H3823; the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like H3820.
and with all
x3605 (3605) Complementכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
their soul;
5315 {5315} Primeנֶפֶשׁnephesh{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental). |
2 Chronicles 15:10-14
_ _ the third month — when was held the Feast of Pentecost. On this occasion, it was celebrated at Jerusalem by an extraordinary sacrifice of seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep, the spoil of the Ethiopians being offered. The assembled worshippers entered with great and holy enthusiasm into a national covenant “to seek the Lord their God ... with all their heart and with all their soul;” and, at the same time, to execute with rigor the laws which made idolatry punishable with death (2 Chronicles 15:13; Deuteronomy 17:2-5; Hebrews 10:28). The people testified unbounded satisfaction with this important religious movement, and its moral influence was seen in the promotion of piety, order, and tranquillity throughout the land. |
2 Chronicles 15:12
Into covenant — The matter of this covenant was nothing but what they were before obliged to. And tho' no promise could lay any higher obligation upon them, than they were already under, yet it would help to increase their sense of the obligation, and to arm them against temptations. And by joining all together in this, they strengthened the hands of each other |
- they entered:
2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 34:31-32 And 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. ... And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
Deuteronomy 29:1 These [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.
Deuteronomy 29:12 That 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 Kings 23:3 And 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.
Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure [covenant], and write [it]; and our princes, Levites, [and] priests, seal [unto it].
Nehemiah 10:29 They 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;
Jeremiah 50:5 They 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 Corinthians 8:5 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
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- seek:
2 Chronicles 15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
Deuteronomy 4:29 But 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.
Deuteronomy 10:12 And 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,
1 Kings 8:48 And [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:
Jeremiah 29:12-13 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. ... And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Acts 24:14 But 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:
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