2 Chronicles 15:12

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Summary

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;

They entered

Seek

Bible References

They entered

Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD's people.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

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 that were written in this book.

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

The king stood by the 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 his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests, seal it."

they 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 the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten."

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

Seek

But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

if 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:

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

But 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;