II Chronicles Chapter 15

II Chronicles Chapter 15
1 Then the Spirit of God came upon
Azariah the son of Obed.
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said
unto him, O Asa, and all Judah, and
Benjamin, hear ye me. The Lord is with
you, while ye be with him: and if ye seek
him, he will be found of you, but if ye
forsake him, he will forsake you. 3 Now
for a long season Israel hath been
without the true God, and without priest
to teach and without law.
4 But whosoever returned in his
affliction to the Lord God of Israel, and
sought him, he was found of them.
5 And in that time there was no peace to
him, that did go out and go in: but great
troubles were to all the inhabitants of the
earth. 6 For nation was destroyed of
nation, and city of city: for God troubled
them with all adversity.
7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not 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 of mount
Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the
Lord, that was before 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 there fell many 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 they offered unto the Lord the
same time of the spoil, which they had
brought, even seven hundred bullocks,
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 whosoever will not seek the
Lord God of Israel, shall be slain,
whether he were small or great, man or
woman.
14 And they swear unto 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 unto the Lord with all
their heart, and sought him with a whole
desire, and he was found of them. And
the Lord gave them rest round about.
16 And king Asa deposed Michaiah
[Maacah] his mother from her regency,
because she had made an idol in a
grove: and Asa break down her idol, and
stamped it, and burned it at the brook
Kidron.
17 But the high places were not taken
away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa
was perfect all his days.
18 Also he brought into the house of God
the things that his father had dedicated,
and that he had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels. 19 And there was no
war unto the five and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa.