2 Cronache 15:8

8 Quando Asa ebbe udite queste parole, e la profezia del profeta Oded, prese animo, e fece sparire le abominazioni da tutto il paese di Giuda e di Beniamino, e dalle città che avea prese nella contrada montuosa d’Efraim; e ristabilì l’altare dell’Eterno, ch’era davanti al portico dell’Eterno.

2 Cronache 15:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 15:8

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
prophet
Some think that besides the above words of Azariah the son of Oded, a prophecy of Oded his father was related by him, though not recorded; but rather Oded here is the same with the son of Oded; and so the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read Azariah the son of Oded; and so does the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint version:

he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land
of Judah and Benjamin;
which were abominable to God, and all good men; besides the images and statues he had broken before, he removed other idols that remained, being animated and emboldened by the speech of the prophet:

and out of the cities which he had taken from Mount Ephraim:
the same which his father Abijah had taken from Jeroboam, ( 2 Chronicles 13:19 ) and which perhaps, upon the approach of the Ethiopians, revolted from Asa, or were restored by them to Jeroboam, and Which Asa retook upon his conquest of them:

and renewed the altar of the Lord before the porch of the Lord;
the altar of burnt offering, which had never been repaired since it was made by Solomon; perhaps he anew overlaid it with brass that being worn out, or become very thin in some places.

2 Cronache 15:8 In-Context

6 ed essi erano schiacciati nazione da nazione, e città da città; poiché Iddio li conturbava con ogni sorta di tribolazioni.

7 Ma voi, siate forti, non vi lasciate illanguidire le braccia, perché l’opera vostra avrà la sua mercede".

8 Quando Asa ebbe udite queste parole, e la profezia del profeta Oded, prese animo, e fece sparire le abominazioni da tutto il paese di Giuda e di Beniamino, e dalle città che avea prese nella contrada montuosa d’Efraim; e ristabilì l’altare dell’Eterno, ch’era davanti al portico dell’Eterno.

9 Poi radunò tutto Giuda e Beniamino, e quelli di Efraim, di Manasse e di Simeone, che dimoravano fra loro; giacché gran numero di quei d’Israele eran passati dalla sua parte, vedendo che l’Eterno, il suo Dio, era con lui.

10 Essi dunque si radunarono a Gerusalemme il terzo mese del quindicesimo anno del regno d’Asa.