2 Chronicles 15

1 And Azariah [the] son of Oded it was on him [the] spirit of God.

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

2 And he went out before Asa and he said to him listen to me O Asa and all Judah and Benjamin Yahweh [is] with you when are you with him and if you will seek him he will let himself be found by you and if you will forsake him he will forsake you.

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;

3 And days many [belonged] to Israel to not - [the] God of truth and to not a priest [who] teaches and to not [the] law.

and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

4 And it turned back when it was distress to it to Yahweh [the] God of Israel and they sought him and he let himself be found by them.

and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them,

5 And in the times those not peace [belonged] to the [one who] went out and to the [one who] came in for disturbances great [were] on all [the] inhabitants of the lands.

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,

6 And they were crushed nation by nation and city by city for God he troubled them with every trouble.

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

7 And you be strong and may not they drop hands your for there [is] reward for work your.

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

8 And just as heard Asa the words these and the prophecy of (Azariah [the] son of *X*) Oded the prophet he strengthened himself and he took away the detestable things from all [the] land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured from [the] hill country of Ephraim and he renewed [the] altar of Yahweh which [was] before [the] porch of Yahweh.

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,

9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those [who] sojourned with them from Ephraim and Manasseh and from Simeon for they had fallen on him from Israel to multitude when saw they that Yahweh God his [was] with him.

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.

10 And they gathered together Jerusalem in the month third of year fif-teen of [the] reign of Asa.

And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh on the day that some of the booty [which] they had brought ox[en] seven hundred and sheep seven thousand.

and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep,

12 And they went in the covenant to seek Yahweh [the] God of ancestors their with all heart their and with all being their.

and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,

13 And every [one] who not he will seek Yahweh [the] God of Israel he will be put to death from small and unto great from man and unto woman.

and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man to woman.

14 And they swore an oath to Yahweh with a voice great and with a shout and with trumpets and with ram's horns.

And they swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns,

15 And they rejoiced all Judah on the oath for with all heart their they had sworn and with all will their they had sought him and he let himself be found by them and he gave rest Yahweh to them from round about.

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.

16 And also Maacah [the] mother of - Asa the king he removed her from queen-mother who she had made to an Asherah pole an abominable image and he cut down Asa abominable image her and he crushed [it] and he burned [it] in [the] wadi of Kidron.

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:

17 And the high places not they were removed from Israel only [the] heart of Asa it was complete all days his.

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

18 And he brought [the] holy things of father his and own holy things his [the] house of God silver and gold and utensils.

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.

19 And war not it was until year thirty and five of [the] reign of Asa.

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