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1 And the Spir­it of God came upon Azari­ah the son of Oded: 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Ju­dah and Ben­jamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye for­sake him, he will for­sake you. 3 Now for a long sea­son Is­rael hath been with­out the true God, and with­out a teach­ing priest, and with­out law. 4 But when they in their trou­ble did turn unto the LORD God of Is­rael, and sought him, he was found of them. 5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vex­a­tions were upon all the in­hab­i­tants of the coun­tries. 6 And na­tion was de­stroyed of na­tion, and city of city: for God did vex them with all ad­ver­si­ty. 7 Be ye strong there­fore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be re­ward­ed. 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophe­cy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abom­inable idols out of all the land of Ju­dah and Ben­jamin, and out of the cities which he had tak­en from mount Ephraim, and 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 out of Ephraim and Man­asseh, and out of Sime­on: for they fell to him out of Is­rael in abun­dance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. 10 So they gath­ered them­selves to­geth­er at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fif­teenth year of the reign of Asa. 11 And they of­fered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, sev­en hun­dred oxen and sev­en thou­sand sheep. 12 And they en­tered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fa­thers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13 That whoso­ev­er would not seek the LORD God of Is­rael should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or wom­an. 14 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shout­ing, and with trum­pets, and with cor­nets. 15 And all Ju­dah 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. 16 And also concerning Maachah the moth­er of Asa the king, he re­moved her from being queen, be­cause she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. 17 But the high places were not tak­en away out of Is­rael: nev­er­the­less the heart of Asa was per­fect all his days. 18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his fa­ther had ded­i­cat­ed, and that he him­self had ded­i­cat­ed, sil­ver, and gold, and ves­sels. 19 And there was no more war unto the five and thir­ti­eth year of the reign of Asa.