2 Chronicles 15:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Solemn renewals of the original covenant which God made with their fathers in the wilderness Exodus 24:3-8 occur from time to time in the history of the Jews, following upon intervals of apostasy. This renewal in the reign of Asa is the first on record. The next falls 300 years later in the reign of Josiah. There is a third in the time of Nehemiah (see the marginal references). On such occasions, the people bound themselves by a solem oath to observe all the directions of the Law, and called down God’s curse upon them if they forsook it.

2 Chronicles 15:12

12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;