2 Chronicles 15

1 And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

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

2 and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, 'Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah [is] with you — in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh 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 and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

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

4 and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is 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 is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on 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 have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

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

7 and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, 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 at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that [is] before the porch of Jehovah,

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 gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon — for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God [is] 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 And they are gathered to 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 sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have 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 enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, 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 every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.

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

14 And they swear to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets,

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

15 and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them 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 And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king — he hath removed her from [being] mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth [it] small, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron:

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 yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been 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 bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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 hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.

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