2 Chronicles 15:2-12

2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: ¹the LORD is with you when you are with Him. And ²if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

3 "³For many days Israel was without the true God and without ⁴a teaching priest and without law.

4 "But ⁵in their distress they turned to the LORD God of Israel, and they sought Him, and He let them find Him.

5 "⁶In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for many disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

6 "⁷Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress.

7 "But you, ⁸be strong and do not lose * courage *, for there is ⁹reward for your work."

Asa's Reforms

8 Now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from ¹⁰the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. ¹¹He then restored the altar of the LORD which was in front of the porch of the LORD.

9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon ¹²who resided with them, for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

10 So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth * year of Asa's reign.

11 ¹³They sacrificed to the LORD that day 700 * oxen and 7,000 * sheep from the spoil they had brought.

12 ¹⁴They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

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2 Chronicles 15:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 15

Asa returning from the battle, and with the spoil of the enemy, was met by a prophet of the Lord, who encouraged him to go on with the work of reformation, promising the presence and help of God with him, 2Ch 15:1-7, which inspired him with fresh courage, and he went about the work with great alacrity; and having offered sacrifices, he and his people entered into a solemn covenant with the Lord, to serve him, 2Ch 15:8-15 upon which he destroyed his mother's idol, brought the dedicated things into the house of God, and the effect of this was peace for a long time, 2Ch 15:16-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

1. 2 Chronicles 20:17
2. 2 Chronicles 15:4, 15
3. 1 Kings 12:28-33
4. Leviticus 10:8-11; 2 Chronicles 17:9
5. Deuteronomy 4:29
6. Judges 5:6
7. Matthew 24:7
8. Joshua 1:7, 9
9. Psalms 58:11
10. 2 Chronicles 13:19
11. 2 Chronicles 4:1; 2 Chronicles 8:12
12. 2 Chronicles 11:16
13. 2 Chronicles 14:13-15
14. 2 Chronicles 23:16

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "before Asa"
[b]. Lit "were on"
[c]. Lit "let your hands drop"
[d]. With several ancient versions; Heb "the prophecy, Oded the prophet"