Parallel Verses
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,
New American Standard Bible
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;
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;
Themes
Covenant » Instances of » Jews with each other, to serve God
Covenant » Of man with God » Asa
Covenants » Illustrative » Of the united determination of a people to serve God
Decision » Exhibited in » Seeking God with the heart
Iconoclasm » Destroyed by » Asa
Prayer » Answered » Israelites for deliverance » For God's favor under the reproofs of azariah
Preaching » Effective » By azariah
Repentance » Instances of » israelites » In the time of asa, by the preaching of azariah
Seeking God » Saints » Engage in, with the whole heart
Simeon » Tribe of » Joined with the people of judah and benjamin in the renewal of the passover
Interlinear
B@riyth
'elohiym
'ab
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 15:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Asa's Religious Reforms
11 and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in -- oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand, 12 and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul, 13 and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.
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Names
Cross References
2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada maketh a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, to be for a people to Jehovah;
2 Kings 23:3
And the king standeth by the pillar, and maketh the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all the heart, and with all the soul, to establish the words of this covenant that are written on this book, and all the people stand in the covenant.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now -- with my heart -- to make a covenant before Jehovah, God of Israel, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from us.
Nehemiah 10:29
are laying hold on their brethren, their honourable ones, and coming in to an execration, and in to an oath, to walk in the law of God, that was given by the hand of Moses, servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commands of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments, and His statutes;
Deuteronomy 4:29
And -- ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 10:12
'And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah hath commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, apart from the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:12
for thy passing over into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into His oath which Jehovah thy God is making with thee to-day;
1 Kings 8:48
yea, they have turned back unto Thee, with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed unto Thee the way of their land, which Thou gavest to their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have builded for Thy name:
2 Chronicles 15:4
and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,
2 Chronicles 34:31-32
And the king standeth on his station, and maketh the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that are written on this book.
Nehemiah 9:38
And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed are our heads, our Levites, our priests.'
Jeremiah 29:12-13
'And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,
Jeremiah 50:5
To Zion they ask the way, Thitherward are their faces: Come in, and we are joined unto Jehovah, A covenant age-during -- not forgotten.
Acts 24:14
'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,
2 Corinthians 8:5
and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,