2 Chronicles 15

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

And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

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 said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD [is] with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, 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,

Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without 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 when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was 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 those times [there was] no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations [were] upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

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

And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

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

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

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 prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that [was] before the porch 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 gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, 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,

So they gathered themselves together 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 they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen 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 they entered into a covenant to 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.

That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, 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 sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, 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 Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; 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 also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.

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

But the high places were not taken away out of 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 into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, 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 [more] war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.