¹² Then they ^(A)entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹⁴ But this I confess to you, that according to ^(A)the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the ^(B)God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in ^(C)the Law and in the Prophets.

¹⁶ Then Jehoiada made a ^(A)covenant between himself, the people, and the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.

¹⁰ “Now it is in my heart to make ^(A)a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

The Essence of the Law

¹² “And now, Israel, ^(A)what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to ^(B)love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

⁵ And not only as we had hoped, but they first ^(A)gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the ^(B)will of God.

²⁹ these joined with their brethren, their nobles, ^(A)and entered into a curse and an oath ^(B)to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes: