Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And he will do evil, for he prepared not his heart to seek Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
He did evil
King James Version
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
Holman Bible
Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.
International Standard Version
He practiced evil by not setting his heart to seek the LORD.
A Conservative Version
And he did that which was evil, because he did not set his heart to seek LORD.
American Standard Version
And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Jehovah.
Amplified
He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek and worship and honor the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
Darby Translation
And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah.
King James 2000
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
And he did the evil because he did not prepare his heart to seek Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he did evil: for he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
NET Bible
He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
He did that which was evil, because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
But he did evil, - in that he did not fix his heart to seek Yahweh.
Webster
And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
World English Bible
He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.
Themes
Heart » The unregenerate » Is wayward
character of the unrenewed Heart » Not prepared to seek God
Kings » Who reigned over judah » Rehoboam (latter part of his reign)
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 12:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Death Of Rehoboam
13 And king Rehoboam will strengthen himself in Jerusalem, and he will reign: for the son of forty and one years was Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah chose to set his name there from all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother, Naamah the Ammonitess. 14 And he will do evil, for he prepared not his heart to seek Jehovah. 15 And the words of Rehoboam, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Shemaiah the prophet, and Iddo the seeing for the enrolling? And wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 19:3
But good words were found with thee, for thou didst burn the images from the land, and didst prepare heart to seek God.
Deuteronomy 5:29
Who will give, and were this heart in them, for them to fear me and to watch all my commands all the days, so that it shall be well to them and to their sons forever.
1 Samuel 7:3
And Samuel will say to all the house of Israel, saying, If with all your heart ye turn back to Jehovah, remove the strange gods out of the midst of you, and Ashtaroth, and prepare your hearts to Jehovah, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of Philisteim.
1 Chronicles 29:18
O Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, our fathers, watch this forever to the formation of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare for their heart to thee:
2 Chronicles 11:16
And after them from all the tribes of Israel those giving their heart to seek Jehovah God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:19
Of every one preparing his heart to seek God, Jehovah the God of his fathers, and not according to the purification of the holy place.
Psalm 57:7
My heart was prepared, O God, my heart was prepared: I will sing and play on the harp.
Psalm 78:8
And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.
Psalm 78:37
And their heart was not right with him, and they were not firm in his covenant
Psalm 105:3-4
Boast ye in his holy name: the heart of those seeking Jehovah shall rejoice.
Isaiah 45:19
I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye Jehovah in his being found, and call him in his being near.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they will come to thee, according to the coming of the people, and they will sit before thee my people, and they heard thy words, and they did them not: for they making loves with their mouth, their heart went after their plunder.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand in the faith, be manly, be strengthened..