This is how Absalom treated every Israelite who came to the king seeking justice. This is how Absalom stole the hearts of the Israelites.

and I will bring all the people back to you like a bride comes back to her husband. It’s only one man’s life you are seeking; everyone else can be at peace.”

The Lord said to Ahijah, “Look! Jeroboam’s wife has come seeking a word from you about her son. He is sick. Say this and that to her. When she comes, she will be disguised.”

Elijah said to the king: “This is what the Lord says: Why did you send messengers to question Ekron’s god Baal-zebub? Is there no God in Israel whose word you could seek? Because of this, you won’t ever get out of the bed you are lying in; you’ll die for sure!”

Then King Ahaz ordered the priest Uriah, saying, “Burn the following sacrifices on the main altar: in the morning, the entirely burned offering; in the evening, the grain offering; the king’s entirely burned offering and his grain offering; the entirely burned offering for all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. “Sprinkle all the blood of the entirely burned offerings and all the blood of the sacrifices on it. I will use the bronze altar for seeking guidance.”

Give praise to God’s holy name! Let the hearts of all those seeking the Lord rejoice!

Pursue the Lord and his strength; seek his face always!

but David couldn’t go there to seek God because he feared the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

Now then, dedicate yourselves to seeking the Lord your God. Get to work and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the chest containing the Lord’s covenant together with God’s holy equipment may be brought into the temple built for the Lord’s name.”

As for you, Solomon, my son, acknowledge your father’s God and serve him with enthusiastic devotion, because the Lord searches every mind and understands the motive behind every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.

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.”