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2 Chronicles 15

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1 Now Azariah the son of Oded--the Spirit of God came upon him.
1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.
2 And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh [is] with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you.
2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 Now Israel [has been] without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.
4 but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them.
4 But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.
5 And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults [were] upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
5 In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.
6 Nation was crushed by nation, and city [was] against city, for God threw them into confusion by all [sorts of] trouble.
6 One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.
7 But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."
7 But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”
8 And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh.
8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God [was] with him.
9 Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
10 And they were gathered [at] Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
10 They assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
11 At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.
12 And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being,
12 They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
13 but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women.
13 All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
14 And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns.
14 They took an oath to the LORD with loud acclamation, with shouting and with trumpets and horns.
15 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around.
15 All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.
16 And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from [being] queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned [it] at the Wadi Kidron.
16 King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
17 But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days.
17 Although he did not remove the high places from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.
18 And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects [into] the house of God--silver and gold and vessels.
18 He brought into the temple of God the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
19 There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
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