Ii Paralipomenon 15

1 Azarias autem filius Oded, facto in se Spiritu Dei,

And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;

2 egressus est in occursum Asa, et dixit ei: Audite me Asa, et omnis Iuda et Beniamin: Dominus vobiscum, quia fuistis cum eo. Si quæsieritis eum, invenietis: si autem dereliqueritis eum, derelinquet vos.

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.

3 Transibant autem multi dies in Israel absque Deo vero, et absque sacerdote doctore, et absque lege.

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

4 Cumque reversi fuerint in angustia sua ad Dominum Deum Israel, et quæsierint eum, reperient eum.

But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

5 In tempore illo non erit pax egredienti et ingredienti, sed terrores undique in cunctis habitatoribus terrarum:

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.

6 pugnavit enim gens contra gentem, et civitas contra civitatem, quia Dominus conturbabit eos in omni angustia.

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

7 Vos ergo confortamini, et non dissolvantur manus vestræ: erit enim merces operi vestro.

But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.

8 Quod cum audisset Asa verba scilicet, et prophetiam Azariæ filii Oded prophetæ, confortatus est, et abstulit idola de omni terra Iuda, et de Beniamin, et ex urbibus, quas ceperat, montis Ephraim, et dedicavit altare Domini quod erat ante porticum Domini.

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.

9 Congregavitque universum Iudam et Beniamin, et advenas cum eis de Ephraim, et de Manasse, et de Simeon: plures enim ad eum confugerant ex Israel, videntes quod Dominus Deus illius esset cum eo.

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.

10 Cumque venissent in Ierusalem mense tertio, anno decimoquinto regni Asa,

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

11 immolaverunt Domino in die illa de manubiis, et præda, quam adduxerant, boves septingentos, et arietes septem millia.

And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

12 Et intravit ex more ad corroborandum fœdus ut quærerent Dominum Deum patrum suorum in toto corde, et in tota anima sua.

And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;

13 Si quis autem, inquit, non quæsierit Dominum Deum Israel, moriatur, a minimo usque ad maximum, a viro usque ad mulierem.

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.

14 Iuraveruntque Domino voce magna in iubilo, et in clangore tubæ, et in sonitu buccinarum,

And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

15 omnes qui erant in Iuda cum execratione: in omni enim corde suo iuraverunt, et in tota voluntate quæsierunt eum, et invenerunt: præstititque eis Dominus requiem per circuitum.

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.

16 Sed et Maacham matrem Asa regis ex augusto deposuit imperio, eo quod fecisset in luco simulacrum Priapi: quod omne contrivit, et in frustra comminuens combussit in Torrente Cedron:

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.

17 Excelsa autem derelicta sunt in Israel: attamen cor Asa erat perfectum cunctis diebus eius,

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.

18 Eaque quæ voverat pater suus, et ipse, intulit in domum Domini, argentum, et aurum, vasorumque diversam supellectilem.

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.

19 Bellum vero non fuit usque ad trigesimum quintum annum regni Asa.

And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.