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When Asa heard these words prophesied by 'Oded the prophet, it gave him courage to throw the disgusting things out of the whole land of Y'hudah and Binyamin and out of the cities he had captured in the hills of Efrayim; he also renewed the altar of ADONAI which was in front of the vestibule of ADONAI.
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Then he gathered all Y'hudah and Binyamin, along with those from Efrayim, M'nasheh and Shim'on who were staying with him (for they had defected to him in large numbers upon seeing that ADONAI his God was with him).
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They assembled together at Yerushalayim in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
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That day they sacrificed to ADONAI 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought;
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and they entered into a covenant to seek ADONAI, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their being;