2 Chronicles 15

1 And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;

And Azariah [the] son of Oded it was on him [the] spirit of God.

2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

And he went out before Asa and he said to him listen to me O Asa and all Judah and Benjamin Yahweh [is] with you when are you with him and if you will seek him he will let himself be found by you and if you will forsake him he will forsake you.

3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

And days many [belonged] to Israel to not - [the] God of truth and to not a priest [who] teaches and to not [the] law.

4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

And it turned back when it was distress to it to Yahweh [the] God of Israel and they sought him and he let himself be found by them.

5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

And in the times those not peace [belonged] to the [one who] went out and to the [one who] came in for disturbances great [were] on all [the] inhabitants of the lands.

6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

And they were crushed nation by nation and city by city for God he troubled them with every trouble.

7 But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

And you be strong and may not they drop hands your for there [is] reward for work your.

8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

And just as heard Asa the words these and the prophecy of (Azariah [the] son of *X*) Oded the prophet he strengthened himself and he took away the detestable things from all [the] land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured from [the] hill country of Ephraim and he renewed [the] altar of Yahweh which [was] before [the] porch of Yahweh.

9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those [who] sojourned with them from Ephraim and Manasseh and from Simeon for they had fallen on him from Israel to multitude when saw they that Yahweh God his [was] with him.

10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

And they gathered together Jerusalem in the month third of year fif-teen of [the] reign of Asa.

11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

And they sacrificed to Yahweh on the day that some of the booty [which] they had brought ox[en] seven hundred and sheep seven thousand.

12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

And they went in the covenant to seek Yahweh [the] God of ancestors their with all heart their and with all being their.

13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.

And every [one] who not he will seek Yahweh [the] God of Israel he will be put to death from small and unto great from man and unto woman.

14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

And they swore an oath to Yahweh with a voice great and with a shout and with trumpets and with ram's horns.

15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

And they rejoiced all Judah on the oath for with all heart their they had sworn and with all will their they had sought him and he let himself be found by them and he gave rest Yahweh to them from round about.

16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

And also Maacah [the] mother of - Asa the king he removed her from queen-mother who she had made to an Asherah pole an abominable image and he cut down Asa abominable image her and he crushed [it] and he burned [it] in [the] wadi of Kidron.

17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

And the high places not they were removed from Israel only [the] heart of Asa it was complete all days his.

18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

And he brought [the] holy things of father his and own holy things his [the] house of God silver and gold and utensils.

19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

And war not it was until year thirty and five of [the] reign of Asa.