2 Chronicles 15 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Reforms of Asa

2Ch 15:1Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

2Ch 15:2And 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.

2Ch 15:3

2Ch 15:3“For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law;

2Ch 15:4

2Ch 15:4“but when in their trouble they turned to the LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

2Ch 15:5

2Ch 15:5“And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

2Ch 15:6

2Ch 15:6“So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.

2Ch 15:7

2Ch 15:7“But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!”

2Ch 15:8

2Ch 15:8And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded[fn] the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the LORD that was before the vestibule of the LORD.

2Ch 15:9

2Ch 15:9Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

2Ch 15:10

2Ch 15:10So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2Ch 15:11

2Ch 15:11And they offered to the LORD at that time seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the spoil they had brought.

2Ch 15:12

2Ch 15:12Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

2Ch 15:13

2Ch 15:13and whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

2Ch 15:14

2Ch 15:14Then they took an oath before the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting and trumpets and rams’ horns.

2Ch 15:15

2Ch 15:15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their soul; and He was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.

2Ch 15:16

2Ch 15:16Also he removed Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah;[fn] and Asa cut down her obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

2Ch 15:17

2Ch 15:17But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

2Ch 15:18

2Ch 15:18He also brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.

2Ch 15:19

2Ch 15:19And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

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NKJV Footnotes

(15:8)

Following Masoretic Text and Septuagint; Syriac and Vulgate read Azariah the son of Oded (compare verse 1).

(15:16)

A Canaanite deity

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