1 Chronicles 28:8
8Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.2 Chronicles 15:2
2and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: aThe Lord is with you while you are with him. bIf you seek him, he will be found by you, cbut if you forsake him, he will forsake you.Ezra 8:22
22For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, d“The hand of our God is for good on eall who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”Psalms 24:6
6Such is fthe generation of those who seek him,who gseek the face of the God of Jacob. ▼
▼Septuagint, Syriac, and two Hebrew manuscripts; Masoretic Text Jacob, who seek your face
Selah Isaiah 1:15
15When you ispread out your hands,I will hide my eyes from you;
jeven though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
kyour hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 8:19
19And when they say to you, “Inquire of the lmediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of mthe dead on behalf of the living?Isaiah 55:6-7
6 n“Seek the Lord while he may be found;call upon him while he is near;
7let 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.
Isaiah 58:1-3
True and False Fasting
1 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;olift up your voice like a trumpet;
pdeclare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 qYet they seek me daily
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
3 r‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ▼
▼Or pursue your own business
tand oppress all your workers.
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