2 Chronicles 12:14
He did what was evil, because he did not fix his heart to seek Yahweh.
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And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 5:29Oh, that there were such a heart in them, that they would honor me and always keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever!
1 Chronicles 29:18Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—our ancestors—keep this forever in the thoughts of the minds of your people. Direct their hearts toward you.
2 Chronicles 19:3However, there is some good to be found in you, in that you have taken the Asherah poles out of the land, and you have fixed your heart to seek God.”
Psalms 57:7My heart is fixed, God, my heart is fixed; 1 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. 1
Psalms 78:37For their hearts were not firmly fixed on him, 1 and they were not faithful to his covenant. 1
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in private, in some hidden place; 1 I did not say to Jacob's descendants, 'Seek me in vain!' 1 I am Yahweh, who speaks sincerely; I declare the things that are right. 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 12:14-16
Jeroboam Defeated by Abijah. ( b. c. 965.) 13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord . 15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of… Read the whole commentary →