2 Chronicles 15

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

Then the Spirite of God came vpon Azariah the sonne of Obed.

2 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.

And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 Now, many days, had Israel been, —without the faithful God, and without a teaching priest, and without the law;

Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe.

4 But they turned, in their distress, unto Yahweh God of Israel, —and sought him, and he was found of them.

But whosoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was founde of them.

5 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;

And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.

6 and they were beaten in pieces-nation against nation, and city against city, —for, God, discomfited them with all manner of distress.

For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduersitie.

7 Ye, therefore, be strong, and let not your hands be slack, —for there is a reward for your work!

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your handes be weake: for your worke shall haue a rewarde.

8 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.

And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lord, that was before the porche of the Lord.

9 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.

And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lord his God was with him.

10 So they gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem, in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

So they assembled to Ierusalem in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yere of the reigne of Asa.

11 And they sacrificed unto Yahweh, on that day, out of the spoil they had brought in, —oxen, seven hundred, and sheep, seven thousand.

And they offred vnto the Lord the same time of the spoyle, which they had brought, euen seuen hundreth bullockes, and seuen thousande sheepe.

12 And they entered into a covenant, to seek Yahweh, God of their fathers, —with all their heart, and with all their soul;

And they made a couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.

13 and, whosoever would not seek unto Yahweh God of Israel, should be put to death, —whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of Israel, shalbe slaine, whether he were small or great, man or woman.

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

And they sware vnto the Lord with a loude voyce, and with shouting and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15 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.

And all Iudah reioyced at the othe: for they had sworne vnto the Lord with all their heart, and sought him with a whole desire, and he was founde of them. And the Lord gaue them rest rounde about.

16 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.

And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.

17 But, the high places, were not taken away out of Israel, —only, the heart of Asa, was perfect, all his days.

But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

18 And he brought the hallowed things of his father and his own hallowed things, into the house of God, —silver and gold, and utensils.

Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

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

And there was no warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.