12And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
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But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-19)We are here told what good effect the foregoing sermon had upon Asa. I. He grew more bold for God than he had been. His victory would inspire him with some new degrees of resolution, but this message from God with much more. Now he took courage. he saw how necessary a further reformation was, and what assurance he had of God’s presence with him in it; and this made him daring, and helped him over…
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