2 Chronicles 15:12

2 Chronicles 15:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
• New International Version (NIV)They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Context of 2 Chronicles 15:12

10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11And they offered unto Yhwh the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. And they entered into a covenant to seek Yhwh God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13That whosoever would not seek Yhwh God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 14And they sware unto Yhwh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

2 Chronicles 15:12 word by word

וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ בַבְּרִ֔ית לִדְר֕וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם בְּכָל־לְבָבָ֖ם וּבְכָל־נַפְשָֽׁם׃Read the interlinear

• And they enteredבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• into a covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• to seekדָּרַשׁdârash · to seekH1875
• Yhwhיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• of their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• with all their heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• and with all their soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 15:12

• 2 Chronicles 23:16And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be Yhwh's people.
• 2 Chronicles 29:10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with Yhwh God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
• 2 Chronicles 34:31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yhwh, to walk after Yhwh, 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 which are written in this book.
• Deuteronomy 29:1These are the words of the covenant, which Yhwh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
• 2 Kings 23:3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before Yhwh, to walk after Yhwh, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
• Nehemiah 9:38And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
• Nehemiah 10:29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yhwh our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
• Jeremiah 50:5They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to Yhwh in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• 2 Corinthians 8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
• 2 Chronicles 15:4But when they in their trouble did turn unto Yhwh God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
• Deuteronomy 4:29But if from thence thou shalt seek Yhwh thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
• Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what doth Yhwh thy God require of thee, but to fear Yhwh thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yhwh thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
• 1 Kings 8:48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
• Jeremiah 29:12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12They entered into a covenant - The covenant consisted of two parts: We will seek the God of our fathers with all our heart, and with all our soul. 2. Whosoever, great or small, man or woman, will not worship the true God, and serve him alone, shall be put to death. Thus no toleration was given to idolatry, so that it must be rooted out: and that this covenant might be properly binding, they confirmed it with an oath; and God accepted them and their…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Solemn renewals of the original covenant which God made with their fathers in the wilderness Exodus 24:3-8 occur from time to time in the history of the Jews, following upon intervals of apostasy. This renewal in the reign of Asa is the first on record. The next falls 300 years later in the reign of Josiah. There is a third in the time of Nehemiah (see the marginal references). On such occasions, the people bound themselves by a solem oath to observe all…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-15The covenant renewal ceremony in the third month likely took place during the Festival of Harvest, also known as Pentecost. This major festival attracted large crowds to the temple from nearby areas. Disloyalty to the covenant was seen as treason and was punishable by death (Deuteronomy 17:2–7). The sacrifices were offerings dedicated from the victory over Zerah (2 Chronicles 14:15).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-159-15. he gathered all Judah and Benjamin--Not satisfied with these minor measures of purification and improvement, Asa meditated a grand scheme which was to pledge his whole kingdom to complete the work of reformation, and with this in view he waited for a general assembly of the people. and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh--The population of Asa's kingdom had been vastly increased by the continued influx of strangers, who, prompted by…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 15:12

• Coercion
• Covenant
• Decision
• Iconoclasm
• Intolerance, Religious
• Prayer
• Preaching
• Repentance
• Revivals
• Seekers
• Shouting
• Simeon

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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings