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Nation crushed nation and city crushed city,(A) for God overwhelmed them with every kind of distress. But as for you, be strong and do not slack off, for there shall be a reward for what you do.”(B)

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy (Oded the prophet), he was encouraged to remove the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had taken in the highlands of Ephraim, and to restore the altar of the Lord which was before the vestibule of the Lord.

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