2 Chronicles 12:14

12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; ²  you removed ³  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 30:19

30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, ⁵  the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 29:4

29:4 But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears! ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 29:1

Narrative Interlude

29:1 (28:69) ⁸  These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 7:3

7:3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

¹ tn Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.”

² tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

³ tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

⁴ tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

⁵ tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”

⁶ tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”

⁷ tn Heb “a heart to know, eyes to see and ears to hear” (NASB similar); NAB, NRSV “a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.”

⁸ sn Beginning with 29:1, the verse numbers through 29:29 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 29:1 ET = 28:69 HT, 29:2 ET = 29:1 HT, 29:3 ET = 29:2 HT, etc., through 29:29 ET = 29:28 HT. With 30:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (which some English versions substitute here for clarity, cf. NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).