'Yearn' in the Bible

He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek and worship and honor the Lord.

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

everyone who sets his heart to seek God—the Lord God of his fathers—even though it is not in accordance with the [ceremonial] purification [rules] of the sanctuary.”

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young (sixteen), he began to seek after and inquire of the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and cast images.