'Seek' in the Bible

I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”

They set out from the mountain of the Lord on a three-day journey with the ark of the Lord’s covenant traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.”

Since Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go to seek omens as on previous occasions, but turned toward the wilderness.

who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

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

Never seek their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but did not seek the Lord’s counsel.

Time went by until 20 years had passed since the ark had been taken to Kiriath-jearim. Then the whole house of Israel began to seek the Lord.

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,’ and that’s how they settled disputes.

my God, my mountain where I seek refuge.My shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, my refuge,and my Savior, You save me from violence.

Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”

They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks.

Honor His holy name;let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Search for the Lord and for His strength;seek His face always.

Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Get started building the Lord God’s sanctuary so that you may bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy articles of God to the temple that is to be built for the name of Yahweh.”

“So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and follow all the commands of the Lord your God so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Those from every tribe of Israel who had determined in their hearts to seek Yahweh their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

Rehoboam did what was evil, because he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.

He told the people of Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

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

Whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be put to death, young or old, man or woman.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.

Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the former ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals

However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”

Jehoshaphat was afraid, and he resolved to seek the Lord. Then he proclaimed a fast for all Judah,

who gathered to seek the Lord. They even came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him.

He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

I did this because I was ashamed to ask the king for infantry and cavalry to protect us from enemies during the journey, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who abandon Him.”

So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.”

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites, they were greatly displeased.

Once again, on the second day while drinking wine, the king asked Esther, “Queen Esther, whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek, even to half the kingdom, will be done.”

The king said to Queen Esther, “In the fortress of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men, including Haman’s 10 sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek will also be done.”

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.

Why not forgive my sinand pardon my transgression?For soon I will lie down in the grave.You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.

But if you earnestly seek Godand ask the Almighty for mercy,

You will lie down without fear,and many will seek your favor.

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.Yahweh my God, I seek refuge in You;save me from all my pursuers and rescue me

Those who know Your name trust in Youbecause You have not abandonedthose who seek You, Yahweh.

Display the wonders of Your faithful love,Savior of all who seek refugefrom those who rebel against Your right hand.

The Lord is my rock,my fortress, and my deliverer,my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,my shield and the horn of my salvation,my stronghold.

The humble will eat and be satisfied;those who seek the Lord will praise Him.May your hearts live forever!

Such is the generation of those who seek Him,who seek the face of the God of Jacob.Selah

My heart says this about You,“You are to seek My face.”Lord, I will seek Your face.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, I seek refuge in You;let me never be disgraced.Save me by Your righteousness.

Young lions lack food and go hungry,but those who seek the Lordwill not lack any good thing.

Turn away from evil and do what is good;seek peace and pursue it.

Let those who seek to kill mebe disgraced and humiliated;let those who plan to harm mebe turned back and ashamed.

Those who seek my life set traps,and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;they plot treachery all day long.

Let those who seek to take my lifebe disgraced and confounded.Let those who wish me harmbe driven back and humiliated.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;let those who love Your salvation continually say,“The Lord is great!”

The daughter of Tyre, the wealthy people,will seek your favor with gifts.

For strangers rise up against me,and violent men seek my life.They have no regard for God.Selah

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A Davidic Miktam. When he fled before Saul into the cave.Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me,for I take refuge in You.I will seek refuge in the shadow of Your wingsuntil danger passes.

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.I thirst for You;my body faints for Youin a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

But those who seek to destroy my lifewill go into the depths of the earth.

Do not let those who put their hope in Yoube disgraced because of me,Lord God of Hosts;do not let those who seek Yoube humiliated because of me,God of Israel.

The humble will see it and rejoice.You who seek God, take heart!

Let those who seek my lifebe disgraced and confounded;let those who wish me harmbe driven back and humiliated.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;let those who love Your salvationcontinually say, “God is great!”

Lord, I seek refuge in You;let me never be disgraced.

May my adversaries be disgraced and destroyed;may those who seek my harmbe covered with disgrace and humiliation.

Therefore, my tongue will proclaimYour righteousness all day long,for those who seek my harmwill be disgraced and confounded.

When He killed some of them,the rest began to seek Him;they repented and searched for God.

Cover their faces with shameso that they will seek Your name Yahweh.

The young lions roar for their preyand seek their food from God.

Honor His holy name;let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Search for the Lord and for His strength;seek His face always.

Happy are those who keep His decreesand seek Him with all their heart.

I will walk freely in an open placebecause I seek Your precepts.

Salvation is far from the wickedbecause they do not seek Your statutes.

I wander like a lost sheep;seek Your servant,for I do not forget Your commands.

Because of the house of the Lord our God,I will seek your good.

But my eyes look to You, Lord God.I seek refuge in You; do not let me die.

if you seek it like silverand search for it like hidden treasure,

Many seek a ruler’s favor,and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.

It is not good to eat too much honeyor to seek glory after glory.

Evil men do not understand justice,but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Many seek a ruler’s favor,but a man receives justice from the Lord.

I applied my mind to seek and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people this miserable task to keep them occupied.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

I will arise now and go about the city,through the streets and the plazas.I will seek the one I love.I sought him, but did not find him.

Y Where has your love gone,most beautiful of women?Which way has he turned?We will seek him with you.

Learn to do what is good.Seek justice.Correct the oppressor.Defend the rights of the fatherless.Plead the widow’s cause.

The people did not turn to Him who struck them;they did not seek the Lord of Hosts.

On that day the root of Jessewill stand as a banner for the peoples.The nations will seek Him,and His resting place will be glorious.

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,and I will frustrate its plans.Then they will seek idols, ghosts,spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

They set out to go down to Egyptwithout asking My advice,in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protectionand take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for helpand who depend on horses!They trust in the abundance of chariotsand in the large number of horsemen.They do not look to the Holy One of Israeland they do not seek the Lord’s help.

The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;their tongues are parched with thirst.I, Yahweh, will answer them;I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I have not spoken in secret,somewhere in a land of darkness.I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:Seek Me in a wasteland.I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;I say what is right.

Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,you who seek the Lord:Look to the rock from which you were cut,and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Seek the Lord while He may be found;call to Him while He is near.

They seek Me day after dayand delight to know My ways,like a nation that does what is rightand does not abandon the justice of their God.They ask Me for righteous judgments;they delight in the nearness of God.”

“I was sought by those who did not ask;I was found by those who did not seek Me.I said: Here I am, here I am,to a nation that was not called by My name.

For the shepherds are stupid:they don’t seek the Lord.Therefore they have not prospered,and their whole flock is scattered.