Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And they entered into the covenant to seek LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul.

New American Standard Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

King James Version

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Holman Bible

Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with all their mind and all their heart.

International Standard Version

They also entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul,

American Standard Version

And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Amplified

They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

Bible in Basic English

And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

Darby Translation

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

Julia Smith Translation

And they will come into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

King James 2000

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being,

Modern King James verseion

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls:

NET Bible

They solemnly agreed to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.

New Heart English Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

The Emphasized Bible

And they entered into a covenant, to seek Yahweh, God of their fathers, - with all their heart, and with all their soul;

Webster

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

World English Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Youngs Literal Translation

and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

to seek
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

the Lord

Usage: 0

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

with all their heart
לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

References

Morish

Context Readings

Asa's Religious Reforms

11 And they sacrificed to LORD in that day of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 12 And they entered into the covenant to seek LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul. 13 And that whoever would not seek LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 23:16

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

2 Kings 23:3

And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before LORD to walk after 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 coven

2 Chronicles 29:10

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

Nehemiah 10:29

they clung to their brothers, their ranking men, 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 LORD our Lord, and his or

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there ye shall seek LORD thy God. And thou shall find him when thou search after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what does LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 29:1

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

Deuteronomy 29:12

that thou may enter into the covenant of LORD thy God, and into his oath, which LORD thy God makes with thee this day,

1 Kings 8:48

if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gave to their fathers, the city which thou have chosen, and t

2 Chronicles 15:4

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

2 Chronicles 34:31-32

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before LORD, to walk after 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 coven

Nehemiah 9:38

And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it, and our rulers, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will hearken to you.

Jeremiah 50:5

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

Acts 24:14

But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets,

2 Corinthians 8:5

And it was not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God,

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