Seeking God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Isaiah 9:13 OT

  Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

• Ezra 4:2 OT

  they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who…

• Isaiah 58:2 OT

  Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

• Proverbs 1:28 OT

  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

• Isaiah 31:1 OT

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

• Zephaniah 1:4-6 OT

  I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, those who worship the army of the sky on the…

• 2 Chronicles 14:7 OT

  For he said to Judah, “Let’s build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So…

• 2 Chronicles 17:3 OT

  Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

• 2 Chronicles 17:4 OT

  but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 26:5 OT

  He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

• 2 Chronicles 31:21 OT

  In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3 OT

  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images,…

• Ezra 7:10 OT

  For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

• Daniel 9:4 OT

  I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,