2 Chronicles 15:12

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

2 Chronicles 15:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 15:12

And they entered into a covenant
Asa and all his people; that is, as Piscator remarks, they went between the pieces of the calf cut asunder, for the confirmation of the covenant, see ( Jeremiah 34:18 ) ,

to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with
all their soul;
to serve and worship him most truly, sincerely, and cordially.

2 Chronicles 15:12 In-Context

10 And they were gathered [at] Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

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

13 but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women.

14 And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fathers"
• [b]. Or "soul"