2 Chronicles 15
1 And Azarias the son of Oded—upon him
came the Spirit of the Lord, 2 and he
went out to meet Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and
all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while ye
are with him; and if ye seek him out, he will be found of you; but if ye
forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 And Israel
has been a long time without the true God, and
without a priest to expound the truth, and without
the law. 4 But he shall turn them to
the Lord God of Israel, and he will be found of them.
5 And in that time there is no peace
to one going out, or to one coming in, for the terror of the Lord is upon all
that inhabit the lands. 6 And nation
shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them
with every kind of affliction.
7 But be ye strong, and let not your
hands be weakened: for there is a reward for your work.
8 And when
Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Adad the
prophet, then he strengthened himself, and cast out the abominations from all
the land of Juda and Benjamin, and from the cities which Jeroboam possessed,
in mount Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the Lord, which was before the
temple of the Lord. 9 And he assembled
Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers that dwelt with him, of Ephraim, and of
Manasse, and of Symeon: for many of Israel were joined to him, when they saw
that the Lord his God was with him.
10 And they assembled at Jerusalem in
the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
11 And he sacrificed to the Lord in
that day of the spoils which they brought, seven hundred calves and seven
thousand sheep.
12 And he entered into a covenant
that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and
with all their soul. 13 And that
whoever should not seek the Lord God of Israel, should die, whether young or
old, whether man or woman. 14 And
they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15 And all Juda rejoiced concerning
the oath: for they swore with all their heart, and they sought him with all
their desires; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round
about.
16 And he removed Maacha his mother
from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the
brook of Kedron. 17 Nevertheless they
removed not the high places: they still existed in Israel: nevertheless the
heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
18 And he brought in the holy things
of David his father, and the holy things of the house of God, silver, and
gold, and vessels. 19 And there was
no war waged with him until the thirty-fifth year of
the reign of Asa.