King James Version

1 And Azariah son of Oded had the spirit of God upon him. 2 "And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, 'Hear me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.'" 3 And many days for Israel without the God of truth and without a priest to teach and without law. 4 And he sat in distress before the Lord God of Israel and sought him, and he was found by them. 5 And at times there is no peace for those who go out and for those who come in, because great turmoil is upon all the inhabitants of the lands. 6 And nation will fight against nation and city against city because God is with them in every trouble. 7 And you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for there is a reward for your work. 8 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abominations from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD. 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and the strangers with them from Ephraim and Manasseh and from Simeon, for they had fallen upon him from Israel in great numbers, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. 10 And they were gathered in Jerusalem in the third month in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11 And they sacrificed to the Lord on that day from the spoil they brought, seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep. 12 And they came into the covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul. 13 And all who do not seek the LORD God of Israel shall be put to death, from small to great, from man to woman. 14 And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice and with a shout and with trumpets and with shofars. 15 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their desire, and He was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around. 16 And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, removed her from being queen because she had made a horrifying image for the Asherah, and Asa cut down her horrifying image and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 17 And the high places did not depart from Israel; only the heart of Asa was complete all his days. 18 And he brought the consecrated things of his father and his consecrated things into the house of God, silver and gold and utensils. 19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.