Deuteronomy 4:29-31
29 aBut from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you bin the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. 31For the Lord your God is ca merciful God. dHe will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.Deuteronomy 30:2-5
2and ereturn to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3then the Lord your God fwill restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will ggather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 hIf your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. 5And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. iAnd he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel Judges Israel
3And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, j“If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then kput away the foreign gods and the lAshtaroth from among you and mdirect your heart to the Lord nand serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”1 Kings 8:46-50
46“If they sin against you— ofor there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive pto the land of the enemy, far off or near, 47yet qif they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, r‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ 48 sif they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you ttoward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 49then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause 50and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and ugrant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on themJeremiah 3:10
10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me vwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”Jeremiah 29:12-14
12 wThen you will call upon me and come and pray to me, xand I will hear you. 13 yYou will seek me and find me, when you seek me zwith all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the Lord, aaand I will restore your fortunes and abgather you from all the nations and all the places acwhere I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
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