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2 Chronicles 15:12

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

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When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner, and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord.

The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant.

Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors.

Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.

Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.”

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the lord our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

(10:1) “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document.”

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,

(28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.




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