2 Chronicles 15

1And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,

1And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

2and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with you--in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

3And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.

3and many days <FI>are<Fi> to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

4And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.

4and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,

5At that time there shall be no peace to him that goeth out and cometh in, but terrors on every side among all the inhabitants of the earth.

5and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles <FI>are<Fi> on all the inhabitants of the lands,

6For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble them with all distress.

6and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

7Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.

7and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

8And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord.

8And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that <FI>is<Fi> before the porch of Jehovah,

9And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.

9and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon--for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God <FI>is<Fi> with him.

10And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

10And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

11They sacrificed to the Lord in that day of the spoils, and of the prey, that they had brought, seven hundred oxen, and seven thousand rams.

11and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in--oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,

12And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul.

12and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

13And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether little or great, man or woman.

13and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.

14And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet, and sound of cornets,

14And they swear to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets,

15All that were in Juda with a curse: for with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought him, and they found him, and the Lord gave them rest round about.

15and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.

16Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.

16And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king--he hath removed her from <FI>being<Fi> mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth <FI>it<Fi> small, and burneth <FI>it<Fi> by the brook Kidron:

17But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

17yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.

18And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses.

18And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

19And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.

19And war hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.