2 Chronicles 15
1 And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;
Da kom Guds Ånd over Asarja, Odeds sønn,
2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
og han gikk ut mot Asa og sa til ham: Hør på mig, Asa og hele Juda og Benjamin! Herren er med eder når I er med ham, og dersom I søker ham, skal han la sig finne av eder; men dersom I forlater ham, skal han forlate eder.
3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;
I lange tider var Israel uten sann Gud og uten prest som lærte dem, og uten lov.
4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
Da vendte de i sin trengsel om til Herren, Israels Gud, og søkte ham, og han lot sig finne av dem.
5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
Og i de tider kunde ingen ferdes trygt, hverken ute eller hjemme; for det rådet stor uro blandt alle dem som bodde her i landene.
6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
Da støtte folk mot folk og by mot by, så de knustes; for Gud voldte uro iblandt dem med alle slags trengsel.
7 But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
Men vær I frimodige og la ikke eders hender synke! I skal få lønn for eders gjerning.
8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
Da Asa hørte disse ord og denne profeti av profeten Oded, fattet han mot og sørget for å få bort de vederstyggelige avgudsbilleder i hele Judas og Benjamins land og i de byer han hadde inntatt i Efra'im-fjellene, og han satte i stand Herrens alter, som stod foran Herrens forhall.
9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
Så samlet han hele Juda og Benjamin og de fremmede fra Efra'im og Manasse og Simeon som bodde iblandt dem; for mange gikk over til ham fra Israel, da de så at Herren, hans Gud, var med ham.
10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.
I den tredje måned i det femtende år av Asas regjering samlet de sig i Jerusalem
11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
Og ofret samme dag til Herren syv hundre stykker storfe og syv tusen stykker småfe av det hærfang de hadde ført med sig.
12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
Og de gjorde en pakt om at de vilde søke Herren, sine fedres Gud, av alt sitt hjerte og av all sin sjel,
13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
og at hver den som ikke søkte Herren, Israels Gud, skulde drepes, enten det var en liten eller en stor, mann eller kvinne.
14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.
Og de svor Herren troskap med høi røst og jubelrop og under trompeters og basuners lyd.
15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.
Og hele Juda gledet sig over eden; for av alt sitt hjerte hadde de svoret den, og med all sin vilje søkte de ham, og han lot sig finne av dem, og Herren gav dem ro rundt omkring.
16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.
Kong Asa avsatte endog sin mor Ma'aka fra hennes verdighet, fordi hun hadde gjort et gruelig avgudsbillede for Astarte; Asa hugg hennes gruelige avgudsbillede ned og knuste det og brente det i Kidrons dal.
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
Men offerhaugene blev ikke nedlagt i Israel; dog var Asas hjerte helt med Herren så lenge han levde.
18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.
Han lot de ting hans far hadde helliget, og dem han selv hadde helliget, føre inn i Guds hus, både sølv og gull og andre ting.
19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.
Og det var ingen krig før i det fem og trettiende år av Asas regjering.
