In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved and molten images.
Proverbs 8:17 - Tree of Life Version I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me find me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I love them that love me; And those that seek me early shall find me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. [I Sam. 2:30; Ps. 91:14; John 14:21; James 1:5.] American Standard Version (1901) I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me. Common English Bible I love those who love me; those who seek me will find me. Catholic Public Domain Version I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. |
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved and molten images.
“Because he has devoted his love to Me, I will deliver him. I will set him securely on high, because he knows My Name.
Then they will cry out to me, but I will not answer! They will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,
then you will know the fear of Adonai and discover the knowledge of God.
Do not forsake her, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will watch over you.
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—
Hardly had I passed beyond them when I found the one my soul loves. I held him, and I would not let him go, until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of her who conceived me.
“I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in desolation.’ I, Adonai, speak righteousness, declaring uprightly.”
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
But when Yeshua saw this, He got angry. He told them, “Let the little children come to Me! Do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from God.
On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Yeshua stood up and cried out loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Therefore Adonai God of Israel declares, I indeed said that your house and your father’s house should walk before Me forever. But now declares Adonai, far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.