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2 Chronicles 15 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

2Ch 15:1The Spirit of God came on `Azaryah the son of `Oded:
2Ch 15:2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Binyamin: the LORD is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2Ch 15:3Now for a long season Yisra'el was without the true God, and without a teaching Kohen, and without law:
2Ch 15:4But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, and sought him, he was found of them.
2Ch 15:5In those times there was no shalom to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
2Ch 15:6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
2Ch 15:7But be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

Asa's Reforms

2Ch 15:8When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of `Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Yehudah and Binyamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Efrayim; and he renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
2Ch 15:9He gathered all Yehudah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them out of Efrayim and Menashsheh, and out of Shim`on: for they fell to him out of Yisra'el in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
2Ch 15:10So they gathered themselves together at Yerushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
2Ch 15:11They sacrificed to the LORD in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2Ch 15:12They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
2Ch 15:13and that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2Ch 15:14They swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
2Ch 15:15All Yehudah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
2Ch 15:16Also Ma`akhah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2Ch 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Yisra'el: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2Ch 15:18He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
2Ch 15:19There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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