2 Chronicles 15

1 And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,

And the Spirit of God has been on Azariah son of Oded,

2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

and he goes out before Asa and says to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; YHWH [is] with you—in your being with Him, and if you seek Him, He is found by you, and if you forsake Him, He forsakes you;

3 And many days shall pass in Israel without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.

and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

4 And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.

and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them,

5 At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the earth.

and in those times there is no peace for him who is going out, and for him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,

6 For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God has troubled them with every adversity;

7 Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands he weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.

and you, be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.”

8 And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.

And at Asa’s hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he has strengthened himself, and causes the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he has captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and renews the altar of YHWH that [is] before the porch of YHWH,

9 And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.

and gathers all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon—for they have defected to him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that his God YHWH [is] with him.

10 And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

11 They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand rams.

and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep,

12 And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.

and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

13 And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.

and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man to woman.

14 And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of comets,

And they swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns,

15 All that mere in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about.

and all Judah rejoices concerning the oath, for they have sworn with all their heart, and they have sought Him with all their goodwill, and He is found by them, and YHWH gives rest to them all around.

16 Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.

And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king—he has removed her from [being] mistress, in that she has made for an Asherah a horrible thing, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and beats [it] small, and burns [it] by the Brook of Kidron:

17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days.

18 And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses.

And he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels.

19 And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.

And war has not been until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.