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2 Chronicles 15:1 (show verse)

After this, the Spirit of God came to rest on Oded's son Azariah,

2 Chronicles 15:2 (show verse)

so he went out to meet Asa and rebuked him:

2 Chronicles 15:3 (show verse)

"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,

2 Chronicles 15:4 (show verse)

but they turned to the LORD God of Israel in their distress. When they sought him, he let them become reacquainted with him.

2 Chronicles 15:5 (show verse)

"During those days, it wasn't safe for anyone to come and go, because many civil disturbances afflicted everyone who lived in the territories.

2 Chronicles 15:6 (show verse)

Nation battled nation, and city fought city, because God was afflicting them all with every kind of distress.

2 Chronicles 15:7 (show verse)

Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."

2 Chronicles 15:8 (show verse)

Encouraged by what Oded's son Azariah the prophet had said in his prophecy, Asa removed the detestable idols from throughout the entire territories of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the LORD's altar that stood in front of the vestibule of the LORD's Temple.

2 Chronicles 15:9 (show verse)

Then he gathered together all of Judah, Benjamin, and people from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living among them, since many people had defected to him from Israel when they learned that the LORD his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 15:10 (show verse)

They all assembled in Jerusalem during the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

2 Chronicles 15:11 (show verse)

They sacrificed to the LORD that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil that they had brought with them.

2 Chronicles 15:12 (show verse)

They also entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with all their heart and soul,

2 Chronicles 15:13 (show verse)

and they further agreed that whoever would refuse to seek the LORD God of Israel was to be executed, whether important or unimportant, man or woman.

2 Chronicles 15:14 (show verse)

They also made a vow to the LORD with loud voices, shouting, trumpets, and horns.

2 Chronicles 15:15 (show verse)

Everybody in Judah was very glad to make their oath, because they had made their vow with all their heart and had sought him with all of their might, and they found him! The LORD also gave them rest in their surrounding lands.

2 Chronicles 15:16 (show verse)

King Asa removed his mother Maacah from her position as Queen Mother because she had made a detestable image dedicated to Asherah. He cut down his mother's idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Kidron Brook.

2 Chronicles 15:17 (show verse)

Nevertheless, the high places were not removed from Israel, even though Asa's heart was blameless all of his life.

2 Chronicles 15:18 (show verse)

Asa brought into God's Temple the things that his father had dedicated, as well as his own dedicated gifts such as silver, gold, and temple service implements.

2 Chronicles 15:19 (show verse)

Asa experienced no more war until the end of the thirty-fifth year of his reign.
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