What Does 2 Chronicles 14:4 Mean in the King James?
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Seeking the LORD takes visible form in doing the instruction and command.
THE MEANING
The verse joins seeking the LORD with doing the instruction and command. The inward pursuit and outward practice belong together, so what the reader seeks takes shape in life now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that seeking God can be reduced to an inward feeling while his instruction remains irrelevant to daily life.
THE ROOT
לִדְרוֹשׁ
lidrosh
GROWS FROM
דרש
The root דָּרַשׁ (darash) means to seek, inquire, or investigate.
The same three consonants form words for inquiry and interpretive study. English “seek” can sound like a private wish, while this Hebrew family points toward sustained inquiry that asks what the sought one teaches and carries that discovery into practice.
ALSO GROWS
derishah: Inquiry or seeking
דְּרִישָׁה
This branch gives seeking the feel of an active inquiry, fitting a verse where seeking is joined to doing.
midrash: Interpretive exposition or study
מִדְרָשׁ
This branch links seeking with close study, illuminating how pursuit of the LORD is paired here with instruction.
THE PATTERN
Seeking the LORD takes visible form in doing what his instruction says.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:THE THREAD
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.Hosea’s “seek” is the same Hebrew root דָּרַשׁ (darash), and it stands beside the image of breaking up fallow ground. That image casts seeking as an active opening, while this verse names the instruction and command that such seeking enters.
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