2 Chronicles 15

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

Forsothe Azarie, the sone of Obeth, whanne the spirit of the Lord was comyn in to hym,

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.

yede out in to the metyng of Asa; and seide to hym, Asa and al Juda and Beniamyn, here ye me; the Lord is with you, for ye weren with hym; if ye seken hym, ye schulen fynde hym; sotheli if ye forsaken hym, he schal forsake you.

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

Forsothe many daies schulen passe in Israel with outen veri God, and without preest, and without techere, and without lawe.

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.

And whanne thei turnen ayen in her angwisch, and crien to the Lord God of Israel, and seken hym, thei schulen fynde hym.

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.

In that tyme schal not be pees to go out and to go in, but dredis on al side on alle the dwelleris of londis.

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

For a folk schal fiyte ayens folk, and a citee ayens a citee, for the Lord schal disturble hem in al anguysch;

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

but be ye coumfortid, and youre hondis be not slakid; for mede schal be to youre werk.

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.

And whanne Asa hadde herd this thing, that is, the wordis and profesye of Asarie, the sone of Obed, the profete, he was coumfortid, and he dide a wei alle the idols fro al the lond of Juda and of Beniamyn, and fro the citees whiche he hadde take of the hil of Effraym. And he halewide the auter of the Lord, that was bifor the porche of the hows of the Lord.

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.

And he gaderide togidere al Juda and Beniamyn, and with hem the comelyngis of Effraym, and of Manasses, and of Symeon; for manye of Israel, seynge that his Lord God was with hym, fledden ouer to hym.

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

And whanne thei hadden comun in to Jerusalem, in the thridde monethe, in the fiftenthe yeer of the rewme of Asa,

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.

thei offriden `to the Lord in that dai, bothe of the spuylis and of the prey, which thei hadden brouyt, seuene hundrid oxis, and seuene thousynde wetheris.

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;

And Asa entride bi custom to make strong the boond of pees, that thei schulden seke the Lord God of her fadris in al her herte, and in al her soule.

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.

Sotheli he seide, If ony man sekith not the Lord God of Israel, die he, fro the leeste `til to the mooste, fro man `til to womman.

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

And alle that weren in Juda sworen with cursyng to the Lord, with greet vois, in hertli song, and in sown of trumpe, and in sown of clariouns;

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.

for thei sworen in al her herte, and in al the wille thei souyten hym, and founden hym; and the Lord yaf to hem reste bi cumpas.

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.

But also he puttide doun Maacha, the modir of `Asa the kyng, fro the streit empire, for sche hadde made in a wode the symylacre, `ether licnesse, of a mannus yerde; and he al to-brak al `that symylacre, and pownede it in to gobetis, and `brente it in the stronde of Cedron.

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.

But hiy places weren left in Israel; netheles the herte of Asa was riytful in alle hise daies.

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.

And he brouyte in to the hows of the Lord tho thingis that his fadir avowide, siluer and gold, and dyuerse purtenaunce of vessels;

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

sotheli batel was not `til to the threttithe yeer of the rewme of Asa.