2 Chronicles 14:4
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New International Version (©2011)
He commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his law and his commands.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He told the people of Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.

International Standard Version (©2012)
commanding Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to keep the Law and the commandments.

NET Bible (©2006)
He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He told the people of Judah to dedicate their lives to serving the LORD God of their ancestors and follow his teachings and commands.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.

Darby Bible Translation
and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

World English Bible
and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

Young's Literal Translation
and saith to Judah to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:1-15 Asa's piety, He strengthens his kingdom. - Asa aimed at pleasing God, and studied to approve himself to him. Happy those that walk by this rule, not to do that which is right in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but which is so in God's sight. We find by experience that it is good to seek the Lord; it gives us rest; while we pursue the world, we meet with nothing but vexation. Asa consulted with his people how to make a good use of the peace they enjoyed; and concluded with them that they must not be idle, nor secure. A formidable army of Ethiopians invaded Asa's kingdom. This evil came upon them, that their faith in God might be tried. Asa's prayer is short, but it is the real language of faith and expectation from God. When we go forth in God's name, we cannot but prosper, and all things work together for the good of those whom he favours.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers. What an indication lies couched in this word "commanded" (confirmatory of the spirit of what is said above, in our previous verse-note) of the moral efforts of Asa, and that the efforts on which he may have largely relied for "taking away the high places" were moral efforts, rather than those of physical force.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers,.... To pray to him, and him only, and attend his worship and service; this he did by a public edict:

and to do the law and the commandment: to observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and civil.

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Asa Succeeds Abijah in Judah
…3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: 4And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. …

2 Chronicles 14:3 He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.
2 Chronicles 14:5 He removed the high places and incense altars in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.