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NASB | 1 Chronicles 28:9 ¶ "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Chronicles 28:9 ¶ "As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father [have personal knowledge of Him, be acquainted with, and understand Him; appreciate, heed, and cherish Him] and serve Him with a blameless heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and minds, and understands every intent and inclination of the thoughts. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him and requiring Him as your first and vital necessity] He will let you find Him; but if you abandon (turn away from) Him, He will reject you forever. |
Bible Question: Is the verse in 1 Chronicles 28:9 "...but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever." (KJV) contradictory with the verse in Lamentations 3:31 "For the Lord will not cast off for ever." (KJV) |
Bible Answer: 1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. Here the proclamation is made that if a man were to forsake the Lord he himself will be forsaken. This is the truth, and we understand the idea to be that of a full forsaking. Such as a man who stops serving God and dies that way. The other passage is about what "seems" to be a forsaking because it appears "in this life" due to hardships that God is no where to be seen, but we are to trust and wait and endure suffering if need be becuase surely he will appear and to our salvation. Lamentations 3:24-31 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: These two phrases are are different types of forsaking based on context. This is not becuase KJV is wrong, it is a natural way of speaking both in Hebrew and in English. We often use the same phrases to mean different types of things based on context. If we forsake the Lord and choose to live in sinful indulgence with no heart of repentance and an indifference to the coming day of the Lord, then we will be forsaken regardless of what lies you have heard to the contrary the scriptures are very plain on this. If we are going through hardship as we ARE SERVING the Lord, and if it SEEMS like He has forsaken us, it is not really true and it is only temporary, we will see his deliverance, He will not forsake us forever. But also if we have done some evil deed and are suffering for it, such as imprisoned for crime, and yet we are repentant and and desire to know God and serve Him fully; we may not be freed from prison but have to live in that horrible pit all the rest of our lives nevertheless, He will not forsake forever, we may be reaping what we have sown now, and we may deserve it, and it is just that God has allowed us to be imprisoned, nevertheless if a man repents and beleives, he will see salvation and not have to suffer forever. |
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