He commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment.

吩咐犹大人寻求耶和华他们列祖的神，遵行他的律法、诫命；

吩咐犹大人寻求耶和华—他们列祖的上帝，遵行他的律法和诫命，

吩咐犹大人寻求耶和华—他们列祖的神，遵行他的律法和诫命，

命令犹大人寻求他们祖先的上帝耶和华，遵行祂的律法和诫命。

吩咐犹大人寻求耶和华他们列祖的神，遵行他的律法和诫命。

吩咐猶大人尋求耶和華－他們列祖的神，遵行他的律法、誡命；

吩咐猶大人尋求耶和華－他們列祖的上帝，遵行他的律法和誡命，

吩咐猶大人尋求耶和華－他們列祖的神，遵行他的律法和誡命，

命令猶大人尋求他們祖先的上帝耶和華，遵行祂的律法和誡命。

吩咐猶大人尋求耶和華他們列祖的神，遵行他的律法和誡命。

吩咐猶大人要尋求永恆主他們列祖的上帝，遵行他的律法誡命。

命猶大人尋求其列祖之上帝耶和華、行其法律誡命、

命猶大族、宗事列祖之上帝耶和華、遵其律例、禁令。

命猶大人尋求主其列祖之天主、遵行主之律法誡命、

He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands.

He commanded Judah to worship the Lord, the God of their people. He commanded them to obey the Lord’ s laws and commands.

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.

He commanded the people of Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his law and his commands.

He told the people of Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and to comply with the Law and the commandment.

and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

He told the people of Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.

And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.

these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year’s produce and the exacting of every debt.Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God as it is written in the Law.And we made ordinances to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the Lord;to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse.For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.

Then Hezekiah commanded them to offer the burnt offering on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord also began, with the trumpets and with the instruments of David king of Israel.

Then I commanded them to cleanse the rooms; and I brought back into them the articles of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.

Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the leaders, at the word of the Lord.

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows, because his sons made themselves vile, and he did not restrain them.

And after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their fathers.

He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

And he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not depart from following the Lord God of their fathers.

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“ Seek Me and live;

And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the descendants of the captivity, that they must gather at Jerusalem,and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the instructions of the leaders and elders, all his property would be confiscated, and he himself would be separated from the assembly of those from the captivity.So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of heavy rain.Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,“ You have transgressed and have taken pagan wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice,“ Yes! As you have said, so we must do.

I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness.Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He shall serve me.He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, That I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. Then he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

Moreover King Hezekiah and the leaders commanded the Levites to sing praise to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”

who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

With my whole heart I have sought You; Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day.Now the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.Then I warned them, and said to them,“ Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!