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2 Chronicles 15:12

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And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
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  1. Acts 24:14Rank 1 from verse 12
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    14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

  2. 2 Chronicles 23:16Rank 2 from verse 12
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    16¶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.

  3. Deuteronomy 10:12Rank 3 from verse 12
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    12¶ And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

  4. 2 Chronicles 29:10Rank 4 from verse 12
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    10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

  5. 1 Kings 8:48Rank 5 from verse 12
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    48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

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2 Chronicles 15:12

COMBINED MEANING

entered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of enter, meaning to go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

covenant

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Sense 1: A binding agreement, promise, pledge, or appointed order. Sense 2: The stated words, terms, testimony, or written record of such an agreement or promise.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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15:8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord.

15:9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

15:10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

15:11And they offered unto the Lord the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

15:12And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

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15:13That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

15:14And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15:15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.

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