2 Chronicles 15

Revised Geneva Translation

15 Then the Spirit of God came upon Azariah, the son of Obed.

² And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “O, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me! The LORD is with you while you are with him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

³ “Now for a long season, Israel has been without the true God, and without priest to teach, and without Law.

⁴ “But whoever returned in his affliction to the LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, he was found by Him.

⁵ “And in that time there was no peace to him who went out and went in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the Earth.

⁶ “For nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city. For God troubled them with all adversity.

⁷ “Be strong, therefore! And do not let your hands be weak. For your work shall have a reward.”

⁸ And when Asa heard these Words, and the Prophecy of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged and took away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken on Mount Ephraim. And he renewed the Altar of the LORD that was in front of the Porch of the LORD.

⁹ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon. For many fell to him out of Israel, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

¹⁰ So, they assembled to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

¹¹ And at that time, they offered to the LORD from the spoil they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

¹² And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

¹³ And whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel shall be killed, whether small or great, man or woman.

¹⁴ And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn to the LORD with all their heart and sought Him with a whole desire. And He was found by them. And the LORD gave them rest all around.

¹⁶ And King Asa deposed Maachah, his mother, from her regency, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa broke down her idol and stamped it and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

¹⁷ But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Still, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

¹⁸ Also, he brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he had dedicated, into the House of God: silver and gold and vessels.

¹⁹ And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.