2 Chronicles 15

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

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

2 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;

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 ye are with him; and if ye seek him out, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without 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 it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them,

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

5 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,

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

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

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

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

8 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,

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 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.

And he assembled Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers that dwelt 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 they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of 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 and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep,

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

12 and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their 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 and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man 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 swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns,

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

15 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.

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 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:

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 yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect 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 he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels.

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

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