2 Chronicles 15:13

And the king said, If any man seeketh not the Lord God of Israel, die he, from the least unto the most, from man unto woman. (And that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, from the least unto the most, man or woman.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And Asa entered by custom to make strong the bond of peace, that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers in all their heart, and in all their soul. (And they entered into a covenant, that they would seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.)

14And all that were in Judah swore with cursing to the Lord, that is, obliging themselves to cursing and pain of death, if they did against the oath, with [a] great voice, in hearty song, and in sound of trump, and in sound of clarions; (And they swore an oath, or a pledge, to the Lord with a loud voice, and a hearty shout, and the sounding of trumpets and horns.)

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Cross References

Exodus 12:29Forsooth it was done in the midst of the night, the Lord smote all the first begotten thing (s) in the land of Egypt, from the first begotten of Pharaoh, that sat in the throne of him (or who sat on his throne), till to the first begotten of a captive woman, that was in (the) prison, and all the first engendered of beasts.

Exodus 22:20He that offereth to (any) gods, except to the Lord alone, be he slain (or shall be put to death).

Deuteronomy 17:2And when a man either a woman, that do evil in the sight of thy Lord God, be found with thee, within one of thy gates which thy Lord God shall give to thee, and they break the covenant of God,

1 Kings 18:40And Elijah said to them, Take ye the prophets of Baal; not one soothly escape of them. And when they had taken them, Elijah led them to the strand of Kishon, and killed them there. (And Elijah said to them, Take ye hold of the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape. And when they had taken hold of them, Elijah led them to the Kishon Stream or to the Kishon Gorge, and they killed them there.)

Job 34:19He accepteth not the persons of princes (or He favoureth not princes, or rulers), neither he knoweth a tyrant to spare him, when he striveth against a poor man; for all men be the work of his hands.

Zephaniah 1:6and which be turned away behind the back of the Lord, and which sought not the Lord, neither ensearched him. (and those who be turned away behind the back of the Lord, and those who did not seek the Lord, nor consulted him.)

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 15:9-19

Asa Reforms His Kingdom. ( b. c. 940.) 8 And 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 . 9 And 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… Read the whole commentary →

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