2 Chronicles 15

1 Forsothe Azarie, the sone of Obeth, whanne the spirit of the Lord was comyn in to hym,

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

2 yede out in to the metyng of Asa; and seide to hym, Asa and al Juda and Beniamyn, here ye me; the Lord is with you, for ye weren with hym; if ye seken hym, ye schulen fynde hym; sotheli if ye forsaken hym, he schal 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 Forsothe many daies schulen passe in Israel with outen veri God, and without preest, and without techere, and without lawe.

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

4 And whanne thei turnen ayen in her angwisch, and crien to the Lord God of Israel, and seken hym, thei schulen fynde hym.

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

5 In that tyme schal not be pees to go out and to go in, but dredis on al side on alle the dwelleris of londis.

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 For a folk schal fiyte ayens folk, and a citee ayens a citee, for the Lord schal disturble hem in al anguysch;

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

7 but be ye coumfortid, and youre hondis be not slakid; for mede schal be to youre werk.

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

8 And whanne Asa hadde herd this thing, that is, the wordis and profesye of Asarie, the sone of Obed, the profete, he was coumfortid, and he dide a wei alle the idols fro al the lond of Juda and of Beniamyn, and fro the citees whiche he hadde take of the hil of Effraym. And he halewide the auter of the Lord, that was bifor the porche of the hows of the Lord.

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 gaderide togidere al Juda and Beniamyn, and with hem the comelyngis of Effraym, and of Manasses, and of Symeon; for manye of Israel, seynge that his Lord God was with hym, fledden ouer to hym.

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 whanne thei hadden comun in to Jerusalem, in the thridde monethe, in the fiftenthe yeer of the rewme of Asa,

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

11 thei offriden `to the Lord in that dai, bothe of the spuylis and of the prey, which thei hadden brouyt, seuene hundrid oxis, and seuene thousynde wetheris.

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

12 And Asa entride bi custom to make strong the boond of pees, that thei schulden seke the Lord God of her fadris in al her herte, and in al her soule.

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

13 Sotheli he seide, If ony man sekith not the Lord God of Israel, die he, fro the leeste `til to the mooste, fro man `til to womman.

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 alle that weren in Juda sworen with cursyng to the Lord, with greet vois, in hertli song, and in sown of trumpe, and in sown of clariouns;

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

15 for thei sworen in al her herte, and in al the wille thei souyten hym, and founden hym; and the Lord yaf to hem reste bi cumpas.

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 But also he puttide doun Maacha, the modir of `Asa the kyng, fro the streit empire, for sche hadde made in a wode the symylacre, `ether licnesse, of a mannus yerde; and he al to-brak al `that symylacre, and pownede it in to gobetis, and `brente it in the stronde of Cedron.

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 But hiy places weren left in Israel; netheles the herte of Asa was riytful in alle hise daies.

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

18 And he brouyte in to the hows of the Lord tho thingis that his fadir avowide, siluer and gold, and dyuerse purtenaunce of vessels;

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 sotheli batel was not `til to the threttithe yeer of the rewme of Asa.

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