2 Chronicles 15

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

Now, as for Azariah son of Oded, there came upon him, the spirit of God.

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;

So he went forth to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin, —Yahweh, is with you, so long as ye are 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, many days, had Israel been, —without the faithful God, and without a teaching priest, 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 they turned, in their distress, unto Yahweh God of Israel, —and sought him, and 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 had been no prosperity, to him that went out nor to him that came in, —for, great consternations, were upon all the inhabitants of 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 they were beaten in pieces-nation against nation, and city against city, —for, God, discomfited them with all manner of distress.

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

Ye, therefore, be strong, and let not your hands be slack, —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 prophecy of Oded the prophet, he strengthened himself, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had captured out of the hill country of Ephraim, —and renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

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 together all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them, out of Ephraim and out of Manasseh, and out of Simeon, —for they fell unto him out of Israel, in great numbers, because they saw that, Yahweh 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 unto Jerusalem, in the third month of 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 sacrificed unto Yahweh, on that day, out of the spoil they had brought in, —oxen, seven hundred, and sheep, seven thousand.

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 Yahweh, 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, whosoever would not seek unto Yahweh 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,

So they bound themselves by oath unto Yahweh, with a loud voice, and with shouting, —and with trumpets and with horns.

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 over the oath, for, with all their heart, had they sworn, and, with all their good will, had they sought him, and he was found of them, —and Yahweh 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:

Moreover also, as touching Maacah mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made, unto the Sacred Stem, a monstrous thing, —so Asa cut down her monstrous thing, and reduced it to dust, and burnt it up, in the Kidron ravine.

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, —only, 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 the hallowed things of his father and his own hallowed things, into the house of God, —silver and gold, and utensils.

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

And, war, was there none, —until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.