Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls:

New American Standard Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

King James Version

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

They also entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul,

A Conservative Version

And they entered into the covenant to seek LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul.

American Standard Version

And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

Darby Translation

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

Julia Smith Translation

And they will come into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

King James 2000

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being,

Modern King James verseion

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul,

NET Bible

They solemnly agreed to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.

New Heart English Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

The Emphasized Bible

And they entered into a covenant, to seek Yahweh, God of their fathers, - with all their heart, and with all their soul;

Webster

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

World English Bible

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Youngs Literal Translation

and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

to seek
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

the Lord

Usage: 0

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

with all their heart
לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

References

Morish

Context Readings

Asa's Religious Reforms

11 And they offered unto the LORD that same time of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 12 And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls: 13 so that all that sought not the LORD God of Israel, should die for it, whether he were small or great, man or woman.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 23:16

And Jehoiada made a bond between him and all the people and the king, to be the LORD's people.

2 Kings 23:3

And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD that they should walk after the LORD, and keep his commandments and his witnesses and his ordinances with all their hearts and all their souls, and make good the words of the said covenant that were written in the foresaid book. And all the people consented to the covenant.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now have I in my heart to strike a covenant with the LORD God of Israel: that his wrath may cease.

Nehemiah 10:29

and their lords that had rule of them, received it for their brethren. And they came to sware, and to bind themselves with an oath to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, that they would observe and do according unto all the commandments, judgments, and statutes of the LORD our God:

Deuteronomy 4:29

Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what is it that the LORD thy God requireth of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:12

that thou shouldest come under the covenant of the LORD thy God, and under his oath which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day.

1 Kings 8:48

and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

2 Chronicles 15:4

And in their tribulation they shall turn unto the LORD God of Israel and shall seek him, and he shall be found of them.

2 Chronicles 34:31-32

And the king stood at his standing and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep his commandments, his witnesses and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul and to fulfill the words of the covenant written in the said book.

Nehemiah 9:38

And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites, and priests seal it."

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Ye shall cry unto me, ye shall go and call upon me, and I shall hear you.

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.

Acts 24:14

But this I confess unto thee, that after that way, which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets,

2 Corinthians 8:5

And this they did, not as we looked for; but gave their own selves first to the Lord, and after unto us by the will of God:

King James Version Public Domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

American Standard Version Public Domain

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain