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Young's Literal Translation

2 Chronicles 14:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Iconoclasm;   Revivals;   Rulers;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Seek God;   Seeking God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Chronicles, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   High Place;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Asa;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He told the people of Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.
Hebrew Names Version
and commanded Yehudah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the mitzvah.
King James Version
And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
English Standard Version
and commanded Judah to seek the Lord , the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.
New Century Version
Asa commanded the people of Judah to follow the Lord , the God of their ancestors, and to obey his teachings and commandments.
New English Translation
He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.
Amplified Bible
And he commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers [to inquire of and for Him and seek Him as a vital necessity], and to observe the law [given to Moses] and the commandment.
New American Standard Bible
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to comply with the Law and the commandment.
World English Bible
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement.
Legacy Standard Bible
and said for Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Berean Standard Bible
He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.
Contemporary English Version
Then he told everyone in Judah to worship the Lord God, just as their ancestors had done, and to obey his laws and teachings.
Complete Jewish Bible
He removed the high places and pillars for sun-worship from all the cities of Y'hudah, and under him the kingdom was quiet.
Darby Translation
and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.
Easy-to-Read Version
He commanded the people of Judah to follow the Lord , the God their ancestors had worshiped, and to obey his laws and commands.
George Lamsa Translation
And he said to Judah, Come, let us pray before the LORD God of our fathers.
Good News Translation
He commanded the people of Judah to do the will of the Lord , the God of their ancestors, and to obey his teachings and commands.
Lexham English Bible
And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.
Literal Translation
And he commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the commandment.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto Iuda, that they shulde seke the LORDE God of their fathers, and to do after ye lawe and commaundementes.
American Standard Version
and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Bible in Basic English
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And commaunded Iuda to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers, and to do according to the lawe and commaundement.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
King James Version (1611)
And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the Law, and the Commandement.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he told Juda to seek earnestly the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and commandments.
English Revised Version
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he comaundide Juda to seke the Lord God of her fadris, and to do the lawe and alle comaundementis.
Update Bible Version
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Webster's Bible Translation
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
New King James Version
He commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment.
New Living Translation
He commanded the people of Judah to seek the Lord , the God of their ancestors, and to obey his law and his commands.
New Life Bible
He told Judah to follow the Lord God of their fathers, and to obey the Laws.
New Revised Standard
and commanded Judah to seek the Lord , the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and bade Judah seek Yahweh, God of their fathers,-and execute the law, and the commandment;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.
Revised Standard Version
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.

Contextual Overview

1 And Abijah lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Asa his son in his stead: in his days was the land quiet ten years. 2 And Asa doth that which is good, and that which is right, in the eyes of Jehovah his God, 3 and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, 4 and saith to Judah to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command; 5 and he turneth aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him. 6 And he buildeth cities of bulwarks in Judah, for the land hath quiet, and there is no war with him in these years, because Jehovah hath given rest to him. 7 And he saith to Judah, `Let us build these cities, and compass [them] with wall, and towers, two-leaved doors, and bars, while the land [is] before us, because we have sought Jehovah our God, we have sought, and He giveth rest to us round about;' and they build and prosper. 8 And there is to Asa a force bearing target and spear, out of Judah three hundred thousand, and out of Benjamin, bearing shield and treading bow, two hundred and eighty thousand: all these [are] mighty of valour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

commanded: 2 Chronicles 29:21, 2 Chronicles 29:27, 2 Chronicles 29:30, 2 Chronicles 30:12, 2 Chronicles 33:16, 2 Chronicles 34:32, 2 Chronicles 34:33, Genesis 18:19, Joshua 24:15, 1 Samuel 3:13, Ezra 10:7-12, Nehemiah 13:9, Nehemiah 13:19-22, Psalms 101:2-8

seek: 2 Chronicles 11:16, 2 Chronicles 30:19, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Amos 5:4

to do: Nehemiah 10:29-39, Psalms 119:10

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 14:7 - we have sought

Cross-References

Ezekiel 17:15
And he rebelleth against him, To send his messengers to Egypt, To give to him horses, and much people, Doth he prosper? doth he escape who is doing these things? And hath he broken covenant and escaped?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers,.... To pray to him, and him only, and attend his worship and service; this he did by a public edict:

and to do the law and the commandment: to observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and civil.


 
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