Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will.

“‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord.”

“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands.

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God.”

who sets their heart on seeking God—the Lord, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.”

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.

they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”

So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the Lord, the God of Israel.

But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,

How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?

In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, God of Jacob.

God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Psalm 63

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Lord, the Lord Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.

The poor will see and be glad— you who seek God, may your hearts live!