2 Chronicles
Chapter Fifteen
1 ¶ Now the Spirit
of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: "Hear me, Asa, and all
Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you while you are with Him. If you seek
Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
3 "For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching
priest, and without law;
4 "but when in their trouble they turned to the LORD God of Israel, and
sought Him, He was found by them.
5 "And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to
the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 "So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled
them with every adversity.
7 "But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work
shall be rewarded!"
8 ¶ And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet,
he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah
and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim;
and he restored the altar of the LORD that was before the vestibule of the LORD.
9 Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from
Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from
Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
10 So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Asa.
11 And they offered to the LORD at that time seven hundred bulls and seven thousand
sheep from the spoil they had brought.
12 Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with
all their heart and with all their soul;
13 and whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel was to be put to death,
whether small or great, whether man or woman.
14 Then they took an oath before the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting and
trumpets and rams' horns.
15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart
and sought Him with all their soul; and He was found by them, and the LORD gave
them rest all around.
16 Also he removed Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother,
because she had made an obscene image of Asherah; and Asa cut down her obscene
image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.
17 But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart
of Asa was loyal all his days.
18 He also brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated
and that he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.
19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
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