Chronicles II 15

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

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

2 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

5 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

8 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.

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.

9 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

12 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

15 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.

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.

16 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.

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.

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

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.

18 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.

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.

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

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