Parallel Verses

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;

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;

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;

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 unto Yahweh, on that day, out of the spoil they had brought in, - oxen, seven hundred, and sheep, seven thousand. 12 And they entered into a covenant, to seek Yahweh, God of their fathers, - with all their heart, and with all their soul; 13 and, whosoever would not seek unto Yahweh God of Israel, should be put to death, - whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 23:16

And Jehoiada solemnised a covenant, between himself and all the people, and the king, - that they should become a people unto Yahweh.

2 Kings 23:3

And the king took his stand by the pillar, and solemnised a covenant before Yahweh - to follow Yahweh, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all their heart and with all their soul, to confirm the words of this covenant, written in this book. And all the people took their stand in the covenant.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now, is it near my heart, to solemnise a covenant unto Yahweh, God of Israel, - that he may turn from him the glow of his anger.

Nehemiah 10:29

were holding fast unto their distinguished brethren, and were entering into a curse and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given through Moses the servant of God, - and to observe and do, all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his regulations, and his statutes;

Deuteronomy 4:29

If thou shalt seek from thence, Yahweh thy God, then shalt thou find him, - when thou shalt search after him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 10:12

Now, therefore, O Israel, what is, Yahweh thy God, asking of thee, - but to revere Yahweh thy God to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

Deuteronomy 29:1

These, are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to solemnise with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, - besides the covenant, which he solemnised with them in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:12

that thou mayest pass through into the covenant of Yahweh thy God and into his oath, - which Yahweh thy God is solemnising with thee, to-day:

1 Kings 8:48

and so they turn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have carried them away captive, - and pray unto thee in the direction of their own land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy Name,

2 Chronicles 15:4

But they turned, in their distress, unto Yahweh God of Israel, - and sought him, and he was found of them.

2 Chronicles 34:31-32

And the king stood in his place, and solemnised the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, 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 are written in this book.

Nehemiah 9:38

Seeing, therefore, all this, we, are plighting our faith, and putting it in writing, - and, upon the sealed scroll, are our rulers, our Levites, our priests.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

So shall ye call upon me, - And go and pray unto me, - And I will hearken unto you;

Jeremiah 50:5

To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age-abiding, which shall not be forgotten.

Acts 24:14

But I confess, this, unto thee, - That, according to the Way which they call a Sect, so, I am rendering divine service unto my father's God, believing in all the things which, throughout the law, and those which, in the prophets, are written:

2 Corinthians 8:5

And, not merely as we hoped, but, themselves, gave they, first, unto the Lord and unto us through God's will,

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