Parallel Verses

Amplified

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

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.

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;

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 They sacrificed to the Lord on that day from the spoil they had brought—700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. 12 They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul; 13 and that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 23:16

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they would be the Lord’s people.

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant (solemn agreement) with the Lord God of Israel, so that His burning anger will turn away from us.

Nehemiah 10:29

are joining with their fellow Israelites, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of God our Lord, and His ordinances and statutes:

Deuteronomy 4:29

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

Deuteronomy 10:12

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear [and worship] the Lord your God [with awe-filled reverence and profound respect], to walk [that is, to live each and every day] in all His ways and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul [your choices, your thoughts, your whole being],

Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them at Horeb (Sinai).

Deuteronomy 29:12

so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath and agreement which the Lord your God is making with you today,

1 Kings 8:48

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and they pray to You toward their land [of Israel] which You gave to their fathers, the city [of Jerusalem] which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your Name and Presence;

2 Chronicles 15:4

But when they were in their trouble and distress they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and [in desperation earnestly] sought Him, and He let them find Him.

2 Chronicles 34:31-32

Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord—to walk after (obey) the Lord, and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.

Nehemiah 9:38


Now because of all this
We are making an agreement in writing;
And on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.”

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask the way to Zion, with their faces in that direction, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

Acts 24:14

But I confess this to you, that according to the Way, which they call a [divisive and heretical] sect, I do worship and serve the God of our fathers, [confidently] believing everything that is in accordance with the Law [of Moses] and that is written in the Prophets;

2 Corinthians 8:5

Not only [did they give materially] as we had hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us [as His representatives] by the will of God [disregarding their personal interests and giving as much as they possibly could].

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