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For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.
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Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.
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And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.
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And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.
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And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
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They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand rams.
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And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.
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And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.
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And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,
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All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about.
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Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.