2 Chronicles 15

1The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded.Cross-references: Num 24:2 · Judg 3:10 · 2Sam 23:2 · 2Chr 20:14 · 2Chr 24:20 · 2Pet 1:21

2He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.Cross-references: Deut 20:1 · Judg 9:7 · 2Ki 21:14 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 12:1 · 2Chr 13:4 · +26 more

3Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.Cross-references: Lev 10:11 · Deut 33:10 · 1Ki 12:28 · 2Chr 17:8 · Neh 8:9 · Jer 10:10 · +12 more

4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.Cross-references: Deut 4:29 · Judg 3:9 · Judg 10:10 · 2Chr 15:15 · Ps 106:44 · Isa 55:6 · +4 more

5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.Cross-references: Judg 5:6 · 1Sam 13:6 · Ps 121:8 · Matt 24:6 · Luke 21:25

6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.Cross-references: Judg 2:14 · 2Chr 12:15 · 2Chr 13:17 · 2Chr 33:11 · 2Chr 36:17 · Ps 106:41 · +6 more

7But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Josh 1:7 · Josh 1:9 · Ruth 2:12 · 1Chr 28:20 · Ps 19:11 · +23 more

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 Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.Cross-references: Lev 18:30 · Deut 27:15 · 1Ki 11:5 · 1Ki 11:7 · 2Ki 16:14 · 2Ki 18:22 · +13 more

9He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.Cross-references: Gen 39:3 · 1Sam 18:28 · 1Ki 3:28 · 1Ki 12:19 · 1Chr 12:19 · 2Chr 11:16 · +5 more

10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.Cross-references: Esth 8:9

11They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, from the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.Cross-references: Num 31:28 · Num 31:50 · 1Sam 15:15 · 1Sam 15:21 · 1Chr 26:26 · 2Chr 1:6 · +2 more

12They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;Cross-references: Deut 4:29 · Deut 10:12 · Deut 29:1 · Deut 29:12 · 1Ki 8:48 · 2Ki 23:3 · +10 more

13and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · Ex 12:29 · Ex 22:20 · Deut 13:5 · Deut 17:2 · Deut 29:18 · +7 more

14They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.Cross-references: Neh 5:13 · Neh 10:29 · Ps 81:1

15All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.Cross-references: Deut 26:11 · Josh 23:1 · 2Chr 14:7 · 2Chr 15:2 · 2Chr 15:4 · 2Chr 15:6 · +14 more

16Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.Cross-references: Ex 32:20 · Ex 32:27 · Ex 34:13 · Lev 26:30 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 7:25 · +15 more

17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.Cross-references: Deut 12:13 · 1Ki 3:2 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 22:43 · 2Ki 12:3 · 2Ki 14:4 · +2 more

18He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:51 · 1Ki 15:14 · 1Chr 26:20

19There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:16 · 1Ki 15:31 · 1Ki 15:33 · 2Chr 16:1