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2 Chronicles chapter 14

Abijah and was buried in the . His son became king in his place, and in his days the land had peace for ten years.Asa did what was in the eyes of his God.He removed the foreign altars and the . He smashed the and chopped down the .He told Judah to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to follow his and commands.He also removed the hilltop shrines and from every town in Judah. The kingdom was at peace under him.He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, because Yahweh had given him .He said to Judah, “Let’s build up these cities with walls, towers, gates, and bars. The land is still ours because we have Yahweh our God. We sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men from Judah carrying and spears, and two hundred eighty thousand from Benjamin carrying small shields and bows. All of them were .Then marched against them with an army of men and three hundred chariots, and advanced as far as .Asa went out to face him, and they took battle positions in the at Mareshah.Then Asa called out to Yahweh his God: “Yahweh, there is no one like you to help—whether the army is huge or has no strength at all. Help us, Yahweh our God, because we are you, and in your name we have come against this massive force. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let a prevail against you.”Yahweh the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.Asa and the army with him chased them all the way to . So many Ethiopians fell that they couldn’t recover—they were before Yahweh and his army. Judah’s forces carried off a massive amount of .They attacked all the cities around Gerar because the had fallen on them. They plundered every city, because there was so much to take.They also raided the tents of the and carried off huge numbers of sheep, goats, and camels. Then they returned to .