2 Chronicles 15

1 And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

And Azarias the son of Oded—upon him came the Spirit of the Lord,

2 and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, 'Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah [is] with you — in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

and he went out to meet Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin, and said, Hear me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin. The Lord [is] with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him out, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

And Israel [has been] a long time without the true God, and without a priest to expound [the truth], and without the law.

4 and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,

But he shall turn them to the Lord God of Israel, and he will be found of them.

5 and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,

And in that time there is no peace to one going out, or to one coming in, for the terror of the Lord is upon all that inhabit the lands.

6 and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

And nation shall fight against nation, and city against city; for God has confounded them with every [kind of] affliction.

7 and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

But be you strong, and let not your hands be weakened: for there is a reward for your work.

8 And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that [is] before the porch of Jehovah,

And when [Asa] heard these words, and the prophesy of Adad the prophet, then he strengthened himself, and cast out the abominations from all the land of Juda and Benjamin, and from the cities which Jeroboam possessed, in mount Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the Lord, which was before the temple of the Lord.

9 and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon — for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God [is] with him.

And he assembled Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers that lived with him, of Ephraim, and of Manasse, and of Symeon: for many of Israel were joined to him, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

10 And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

And they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11 and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in — oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,

And he sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils which they brought, seven hundred calves and seven thousand sheep.

12 and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

And he entered into a covenant that they should seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

13 and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.

And that whoever should not seek the Lord God of Israel, should die, whether young or old, whether man or woman.

14 And they swear to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets,

And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15 and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.

And all Juda rejoiced concerning the oath: for they swore with all their heart, and they sought him with all their desires; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.

16 And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king — he hath removed her from [being] mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth [it] small, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron:

And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

17 yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.

Nevertheless they removed not the high places: they still existed in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

18 And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

And he brought in the holy things of David his father, and the holy things of the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

19 And war hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.

And there was no war [waged] with him until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.