2 Chronicles Chapter 15 Back Next{15:1} The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
{15:2} and he went out to meet
Asa, and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all
Judah and
Benjamin! Yahweh 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.
{15:3} Now for a long time
Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without
law.
{15:4} But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
{15:5} In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
{15:6} They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
{15:7} But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."
{15:8} When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the
abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the
hill country of
Ephraim; and he renewed the
altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
{15:9} He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim and
Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
{15:10} So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
{15:11} They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred head of
cattle and seven thousand sheep.
{15:12} They entered into the
covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their
fathers, with all their
heart and with all their soul;
{15:13} and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to
death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
{15:14} They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with
cornets.
{15:15} All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all around.
{15:16} Also
Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an
Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made
dust of it, and burnt it at the
brook Kidron.
{15:17} But the
high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
{15:18} He brought into God's house the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels.
{15:19} There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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