if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

People from every tribe of Israel who had made up their minds to seek the Lord, Israel’s God, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

But Rehoboam did what was evil because he didn’t set his heart on seeking the Lord.

and urged Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, by doing what the Instruction and the commandments required.

he confronted Asa: “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin,” he said. “The Lord is with you as long as you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

They made a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and all their being.

They agreed that anyone who refused to seek the Lord, Israel’s God, would be put to death, whether young or old, male or female.

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa developed a severe foot disease. But even in his illness he refused to seek the Lord and consulted doctors instead.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the earlier ways of his father by not seeking Baal.

Nevertheless, there is some good to be found in you, in that you have removed the sacred poles from the land and set your mind to seek God.”

Frightened, Jehoshaphat decided to seek the Lord’s help and proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

King Jehoash failed to remember the loyalty that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him and murdered Jehoiada’s son, who cried out as he lay dying, “May the Lord see and seek vengeance!”

As a result, the Lord was angry with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him. “Why do you seek the gods of this people?” the prophet asked. “They couldn’t even deliver their own people from you!”

Do you think that because you’ve defeated Edom, you can arrogantly seek even more? Stay home! Why invite disaster when both you and Judah will fall?”

everyone who has decided to seek the true God, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, even though they aren’t ceremonially clean by sanctuary standards.”

Everything that Hezekiah began to do for the service of God’s temple, whether by the Instruction or the commands, in order to seek his God, he did successfully and with all his heart.

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was just a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began purifying Judah and Jerusalem of the shrines, the sacred poles, idols, and images.