The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
15: 1The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and
said to him, Hear you 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 of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake
you. 15:3Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and
without law: 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought
him, he was found of them. 15:5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him
who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands. 15:6They were broken in
pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity. 15:7But
be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded. 15:8When 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. 15:9He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned 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. 15:10So they gathered themselves together at
Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 15:11They sacrificed to
Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand
sheep. 15:12They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their
heart and with all their soul; 15:13and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel,
should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 15:14They swore to Yahweh
with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15:15All 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 round about. 15:16Also 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.
15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect
all his days. 15:18He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that
he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. 15:19There was no more war to the five and
thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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