2 Chronicles 15

1 Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.

And Azarias the son of Oded—upon him came the Spirit of the Lord,

2 And he went out to meet Asa, and he said to him: “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

and he went out to meet Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord [is] with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him out, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.

And Israel [has been] a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound [the truth], and without the law.

4 And when, in their anguish, they will have returned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and will have sought him, they shall find him.

But he shall turn them to the Lord God of Israel, and he will be found of them.

5 In that time, there will be no peace for those who depart and those who enter. Instead, there will be terror on every side, among all the inhabitants of the lands.

And in that time there is no peace to one going out, or to one coming in, for the terror of the Lord is upon all that inhabit the lands.

6 For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.

And nation shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them with every [kind of] affliction.

7 But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”

But be you strong, and let not your hands be weakened: for there is a reward for your work.

8 And when Asa had heard these particular words, and the prophecy of the prophet Azariah, the son of Oded, he was strengthened, and he took away the idols from the entire land of Judah, and from Benjamin, and from the cities that he had seized of mount Ephraim, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the portico of the Lord.

And when [Asa] heard these words, and the prophesy of Adad the prophet, then he strengthened himself, and cast out the abominations from all the land of Juda and Benjamin, and from the cities which Jeroboam possessed, in mount Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the Lord, which was before the temple of the Lord.

9 And he gathered together all of Judah and Benjamin, and with them the new arrivals from Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon. For many had fled to him from Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.

And he assembled Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers that lived with him, of Ephraim, and of Manasse, and of Symeon: for many of Israel were joined to him, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

10 And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

And they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11 they immolated to the Lord on that day, from the best of the spoils and from the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand rams.

And he sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils which they brought, seven hundred calves and seven thousand sheep.

12 And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.

And he entered into a covenant that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

13 “But if anyone,” he said, “will not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, let him die, from the least even to the greatest, from man even to woman.”

And that whoever should not seek the Lord God of Israel, should die, whether young or old, whether man or woman.

14 And they swore to the Lord, with a great voice, in jubilation, and with the blare of trumpets, and with the sound of horns,

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15 all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.

And all Juda rejoiced concerning the oath: for they swore with all their heart, and they sought him with all their desires; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.

16 Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.

And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

17 But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.

Nevertheless they removed not the high places: they still existed in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

18 And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.

And he brought in the holy things of David his father, and the holy things of the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

19 Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.

And there was no war [waged] with him until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.