2 Chronicles 30:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    That prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    that setteth{H3559} his heart{H3824} to seek{H1875} God,{H430} Jehovah,{H3068} the God{H430} of his fathers,{H1} though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification{H2893} of the sanctuary.{H6944}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    That prepareth{H3559}{(H8689)} his heart{H3824} to seek{H1875}{(H8800)} God{H430}, the LORD{H3068} God{H430} of his fathers{H1}, though he be not cleansed according to the purification{H2893} of the sanctuary{H6944}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    shalbe mercifull vnto all them that prepare their hertes vnto God, to seke the LORDE God of their fathers, though they be not clensed after the holy purificacion.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    That prepareth his whole heart to seeke the Lord God, the God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed, according to the purification of the Sanctuarie.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    That prepareth his heart to seeke the Lorde God, the God of his fathers: though he be not clensed accordyng to the purification of the sanctuarie.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [That] prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    who hath prepared his heart to seek God -- Jehovah, God of his fathers -- yet not according to the cleansing of the sanctuary;'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though `he be' not `cleansed' according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren't clean according to the purification of the sanctuary."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.
  • Ezra 7:10 : 10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, to observe it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 If you would set your heart right and stretch out your hands toward Him,
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts and listen with Your ear.
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
  • Lev 12:4 : 4 She must then remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing or enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.
  • Lev 15:31-33 : 31 You must warn the Israelites about their impurity, so they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them. 32 This is the law concerning the man with a discharge and anyone who has an emission of semen that makes him unclean. 33 It also applies to a woman during her menstrual period, to anyone—male or female—with a discharge, and to a man who lies with a woman who is unclean.
  • Lev 21:17-23 : 17 Speak to Aaron and say: None of your descendants through their generations who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18 For no man who has a defect may approach: no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed. 19 No man with a broken foot or a broken hand, 20 or who is hunchbacked, a dwarf, has an eye defect, severe skin diseases, or damaged testicles. 21 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect may approach to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not approach to offer the food of his God. 22 He may eat the food of his God, both the most holy and the holy, 23 but he must not enter behind the curtain or come near the altar because he has a defect. He must not profane My sanctuary, for I am the LORD who makes them holy.
  • Lev 22:3-6 : 3 Say to them: 'If any of your descendants in future generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD while he is ceremonially unclean, that person will be cut off from My presence. I am the LORD.' 4 If any man from Aaron's descendants has a skin disease or a discharge, he must not eat from the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or a man who has had an emission of semen, 5 or touches any unclean crawling creature that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean by whatever means— 6 the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat any of the holy things unless he has bathed in water.
  • Num 9:6 : 6 There were some men who were unclean because of contact with a dead body, and they could not keep the Passover on that day. They came before Moses and Aaron on that day,
  • Num 19:13-20 : 13 Anyone who touches a dead body, the lifeless body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the LORD's tabernacle. That person must be cut off from Israel because the water of purification was not sprinkled on him. He remains unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him. 14 This is the law: When a person dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days. 15 And every open container that does not have a lid tightly fastened on it shall be unclean. 16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who was killed with a sword, a dead body, a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean for seven days. 17 For the unclean person, they shall take some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering, and fresh water shall be added to them in a container. 18 Then a clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the people who were there, and on anyone who touched a bone, a slain person, a dead body, or a grave. 19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. Then the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening. 20 But if someone is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Then Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, 'If you are truly returning to the LORD with all your heart, rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth among you. Commit your hearts to the LORD and worship Him only, and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.'
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep these intentions and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and direct their hearts toward you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 30:17-18
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    17 Since many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were responsible for slaughtering the Passover lambs for everyone who was not ceremonial clean to dedicate them to the LORD.

    18 Although most of the people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not purified themselves, they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, 'May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone

  • 2 Chr 30:20
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    20 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-20
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    15 They gathered their fellow Levites, consecrated themselves, and went in as the king commanded, in accordance with the words of the LORD, to purify the house of the LORD.

    16 The priests entered the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it. They brought out all the unclean things they found in the temple of the LORD and carried them to the courtyard of the house of the LORD. The Levites then took them and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

    17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month, they reached the vestibule of the LORD. For eight days, they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month, they completed their work.

    18 Then they went to King Hezekiah and said, 'We have purified the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for the bread of the Presence with all its utensils.'

    19 Moreover, all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and they are now before the altar of the LORD.

    20 Early in the morning, King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33 However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
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    5 He said to them, 'Listen to me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and remove the impurity from the holy place.'

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
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    19 Now set your heart and soul to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.

  • Num 19:19-20
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    19 The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. Then the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening.

    20 But if someone is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

  • 2 Chr 31:20-21
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    20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, upright, and true before the Lord his God.

    21 In everything he undertook in the service of the house of God, in observing the law and the commandments, and in seeking his God, he worked wholeheartedly and prospered.

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    10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger may turn away from us.

  • Ps 24:3-4
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    3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?

    4 The one with clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up their soul to vanity or swear deceitfully.

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    12 He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, he will not be clean.

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    16 Those from all the tribes of Israel who had set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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    13 If you would set your heart right and stretch out your hands toward Him,

  • Isa 37:15
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    15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying:

  • Isa 38:2-3
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    2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.

    3 He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with a wholehearted devotion, and how I have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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    31 Then Hezekiah said, 'Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.' So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing brought burnt offerings.

  • 2 Chr 23:19
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    19 He stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the Lord so that no one who was unclean in any way could enter.

  • Lev 14:19-20
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    19 Then the priest shall offer the sin offering to make atonement for the one being cleansed from their impurity. Afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

    20 The priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. In this way, the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be clean.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
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    18 LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep these intentions and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and direct their hearts toward you.

  • 2 Chr 32:26
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    26 However, Hezekiah humbled himself, along with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the LORD's wrath did not come upon them during Hezekiah's days.

  • 2 Chr 15:12
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    12 They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

  • 2 Chr 31:11
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    11 Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
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    4 Instead, he sought the God of his father and obeyed His commands rather than following the practices of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:38
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    38 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among all Your people Israel—being aware of the afflictions in their own hearts and spreading out their hands toward this house—

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    3 They could not celebrate it at the proper time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves, and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem.

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    14 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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    3 saying, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You in truth, wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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    27 Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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    30 Because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then you will be clean before the LORD from all your sins.

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    13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so their bodies are outwardly clean,

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    9 Who can say, 'I have cleansed my heart; I am pure from my sin'?

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    10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, to observe it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

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    16 But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will bear their guilt.

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    21 If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

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    8 Now do not harden your necks as your ancestors did. Submit to the LORD; come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.