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2 Chronicles 15 Bible study: He will be found by you
Azariah's promise, "if you seek him, he will be found by you" (15:2), comes back twice in this chapter: "he was found by them" (15:4, 15:15), with the same Hebrew verb for found. And his "your work will be rewarded" (15:7) is word for word what the LORD says to Rachel, weeping for her children (Jeremiah 31:16).
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“But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.”
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“After Azariah speaks, 15:8 says Asa heard "the prophecy of Oded the prophet".”
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"The LORD is with you while you are with him"
"The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded" (15:1) (tap Spirit). "He went out to meet Asa" (15:2) and spoke to "Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin" (15:2): "The LORD is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you" (15:2) (tap seek, found and forsake). In Hebrew the three verbs are darash, matsa' and azav, and David had used the same three to Solomon: "If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever" (1 Chronicles 28:9). There the last words are he will cast you off forever; here the verb comes back on itself: forsake him, and he will forsake you. One chapter before, Asa had said, "We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side" (14:7). At the end of this one, the people "sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then the LORD gave them rest all around" (15:15).
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I will also deny him
2 Chronicles 15:2leads toMatthew 10:32-33
Azariah told Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, "The LORD is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you" (15:2). When Jesus sent out the twelve (Matthew 10:5), he told them, "Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32), and "But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 10:33). Jesus doesn't cite 2 Chronicles 15, and no link between the Hebrew and Greek words is claimed, so setting the two side by side is a reading. It rests on what both sayings say, not on shared words: how God answers matches how a person stands toward him, "with you while you are with him" and forsake and forsake (15:2), confess and confess, deny and deny (Matthew 10:32-33). Some hear in Jesus' words the same two ways Azariah set before Asa, now spoken of Jesus himself. Others read Matthew 10 in its own setting, Jesus sending out the twelve, and 15:2 as a prophet's word to one king and his people (15:1-2), and don't look from one to the other. How such warnings speak to believers is read in more than one way; the honest question on 15:2 sets out the main views.
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The Hebrew word behind it
דָּרַשׁdarashsay da-RASH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "resort to, seek", and among its uses, "seek deity in prayer and worship". Strong's: "usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask". It comes three times in this chapter: Azariah's "if you seek him, he will be found by you" (15:2), the covenant "to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul" (15:12), and 15:13. David had used it to Solomon: "If you seek him, he will be found by you" (1 Chronicles 28:9). The Hebrew of 2 Chronicles has it 30 times; the chapter before, Asa "commanded Judah to seek the LORD" (14:4), and later, "in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD, but just the physicians" (16:12).
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2 Chronicles 15 Bible study questions
- 1Azariah said, "The LORD is with you while you are with him" (15:2). What does being with him look like for you on an ordinary day?
- 2"But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack" (15:7). Where are your hands tempted to go slack right now, and what would help you keep going?
- 3People came to Asa "when they saw that the LORD his God was with him" (15:9). Whose life has shown you that God was with them, and how did it draw you?
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