2 Chronicles 15:12
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New International Version (©2011)
They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their mind and all their heart.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They also entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul,

NET Bible (©2006)
They solemnly agreed to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They made an agreement with one another to dedicate their lives to serving the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

American King James Version
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

American Standard Version
And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.

Darby Bible Translation
And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

English Revised Version
And they entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Webster's Bible Translation
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

World English Bible
They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Young's Literal Translation
and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:1-19 The people make a solemn covenant with God. - The work of complete reformation appeared so difficult, that Asa had not courage to attempt it, till assured of Divine assistance and acceptance. He and his people offered sacrifices to God; thanksgiving for the favours they had received, and supplication for further favours. Prayers and praises are now our spiritual sacrifices. The people, of their own will, covenanted to seek the Lord, each for himself, with earnestness. What is religion but seeking God, inquiring after him, applying to him upon all occasions? We make nothing of our religion, if we do not make heart-work of it; God will have all the heart, or none. Our devotedness to God our Saviour, should be avowed and shown in the most solemn and public manner. What is done in hypocrisy is a mere drudgery.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - They entered into a covenant. For the original, see Exodus 24:6-8; Deuteronomy 4:29; for two other solemn renewals of it, see 2 Kings 23:1-3; 2 Chronicles 34:29-33; where, however, the stringent engagement of the following verse, though sufficiently to be inferred, is not notified. To seek; Hebrew, לִדְרושׁ. (for similar use of לְ, with infinitive after, etc., see Nehemiah 10:30; Jeremiah 34:10).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they entered into a covenant,.... Asa and all his people; that is, as Piscator remarks, they went between the pieces of the calf cut asunder, for the confirmation of the covenant, see Jeremiah 34:18,

to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul; to serve and worship him most truly, sincerely, and cordially.

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Asa's Reforms
…11And they offered to the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 12And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. …

2 Kings 11:17 Jehoiada then made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people that they would be the LORD's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.
2 Chronicles 23:16 Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king would be the LORD's people.