19 Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God.(A) 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(B) for the name of the Lord.”(C)

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19 Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God.(A) Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord.”

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

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14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

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

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He commanded Judah to seek the Lord,(A) the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands.

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12 Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with all their heart and all their soul.(A) 13 Whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be put to death, young or old,[a] man or woman.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:13 Or insignificant or great

12 They entered into a covenant(A) to seek the Lord,(B) the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul. 13 All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death,(C) whether small or great, man or woman.

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12 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.

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12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted(A) with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek(B) help from the Lord,(C) but only from the physicians.

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10 Young lions[a] lack food and go hungry,(A)
but those who seek the Lord
will not lack any good thing.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 34:10 LXX, Syr, Vg read The rich

10 The lions may grow weak and hungry,
    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.(A)

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13 The people did not turn to him who struck them;
they did not seek the Lord of Armies.

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13 But the people have not returned(A) to him who struck(B) them,
    nor have they sought(C) the Lord Almighty.

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Salvation for Zion

51 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.

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Everlasting Salvation for Zion

51 “Listen(A) to me, you who pursue righteousness(B)
    and who seek(C) the Lord:
Look to the rock(D) from which you were cut
    and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

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12 Sow righteousness for yourselves(A)
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.(B)
It is time to seek the Lord(C)
until he comes(D) and sends righteousness
on you like the rain.(E)

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12 Sow(A) righteousness(B) for yourselves,
    reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;(C)
    for it is time to seek(D) the Lord,
until he comes
    and showers his righteousness(E) on you.

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14 Pursue good and not evil
so that you may live,
and the Lord, the God of Armies,
will be with you
as you have claimed.(A)

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14 Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.(A)
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is.

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and those who turn back from following the Lord,
who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.

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those who turn back from following(A) the Lord
    and neither seek(B) the Lord nor inquire(C) of him.”

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21 the residents of one city will go to another, saying: Let’s go at once to plead for the Lord’s favor and to seek the Lord of Armies. I am also going. 22 Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Armies in Jerusalem and to plead for the Lord’s favor.”(A)

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21 and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat(A) the Lord and seek(B) the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’ 22 And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”(C)

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