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

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.

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

join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his rules and his statutes.We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.“ We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”

Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

And those who had set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.

Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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

And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,“ You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.Now then make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice,“ It is so; we must do as you have said.

I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond 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 and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down 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, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

who sets his heart to seek God, the Lord, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.But I warned them and said to them,“ Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.