2 Chronicles 15

1 Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

Then the Spirite of God came vpon Azariah the sonne of Obed.

2 So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.

Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe.

4 But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

But whosoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was founde of them.

5 In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.

6 Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduersitie.

7 But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your handes be weake: for your worke shall haue a rewarde.

8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lord, that was before the porche of the Lord.

9 And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, along with those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for great numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lord his God was with him.

10 So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

So they assembled to Ierusalem in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yere of the reigne of Asa.

11 At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.

And they offred vnto the Lord the same time of the spoyle, which they had brought, euen seuen hundreth bullockes, and seuen thousande sheepe.

12 Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.

And they made a couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.

13 And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

And whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of Israel, shalbe slaine, whether he were small or great, man or woman.

14 They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and rams’ horns.

And they sware vnto the Lord with a loude voyce, and with shouting and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

And all Iudah reioyced at the othe: for they had sworne vnto the Lord with all their heart, and sought him with a whole desire, and he was founde of them. And the Lord gaue them rest rounde about.

16 King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.

17 The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

18 And he brought into the house of God the silver and gold articles that he and his father had dedicated.

Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

And there was no warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.