2 Chronicles 14:4

In 11 translations

BSB

He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.

KJV

And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

WEB

and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

ASV

and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

LSV

and commands to Judah to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the command;

YLT

and saith to Judah to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command;

DBY

and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.Elohim

DRC

And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.

GNV

And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement.

JPS14:3

and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

LXXE14:3

and he told Juda to seek earnestly the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments.

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WLC14:3

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ לִֽיהוּדָ֔ה לִדְר֕וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם וְלַעֲשׂ֖וֹת הַתּוֹרָ֥ה וְהַמִּצְוָֽה׃KJV:2Chr.14.4

LXX-Br14:3

καὶ εἶπε τῷ Ἰούδα ἐκζητῆσαι τὸν Κύριον Θεὸν τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν, καὶ ποιῆσαι τὸν νόμον καὶ τὰς ἐντολάς.

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• Joshua 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you…
• 2 Chronicles 29:27And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 30:19who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
• Amos 5:4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• Psalms 101:2–8I will ponder the way that is blameless— when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart. I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not…
• Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• 2 Chronicles 29:30Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped.
• Nehemiah 13:9Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.
• 2 Chronicles 33:16Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 30:12Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
• Ezra 10:7–12And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the…
• Isaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our…
• 2 Chronicles 29:21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them…
• 1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
• Nehemiah 10:29–39hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD…
• Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

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