2 Chronicles 15:15

Asa's Religious Reforms

¹⁴ They took an oath to the Lord in a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with rams’ horns. ¹⁵ All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their mind. They had sought Him with all their heart, and He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side. ¹⁶ King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Lord Gave Them Rest

Sought the Lord

To the Lord

Jehovah

Judah

2 Chronicles 14:7

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let’s build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we sought the Lord our God. We sought Him and He gave us rest on every side.” So they built and succeeded.

Deuteronomy 26:11

You, the Levite, and the foreign resident among you will rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has given you and your household.

Joshua 23:1

A long time after the Lord had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, getting on in years.

2 Chronicles 15:2

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 15:4

but when they turned to the Lord God of Israel in their distress and sought Him, He was found by them.

2 Chronicles 15:6

Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress.

2 Chronicles 15:12

Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with all their mind and all their heart.

2 Chronicles 23:16-21

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord’s people.

2 Chronicles 29:10

It is in my heart now to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel so that His burning anger may turn away from us.

2 Chronicles 29:36

Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over how God had prepared the people, for it had come about suddenly.

Nehemiah 8:9

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.

Job 34:29

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,

Psalm 32:11

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice,
you righteous ones;
shout for joy,
all you upright in heart.

Psalm 119:106

I have solemnly sworn
to keep Your righteous judgments.

Psalm 119:111

I have Your decrees as a heritage forever;
indeed, they are the joy of my heart.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are pleasant,
and all her paths, peaceful.

Isaiah 26:8

Yes, Yahweh, we wait for You
in the path of Your judgments.
Our desire is for Your name and renown.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret,
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

Philippians 1:23

I am pressured by both. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ—which is far better—