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2 Chronicles chapter 15
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Azariah son of Oded.He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you when you are with him. If you him, he’ll let you find him. But if you him, he’ll abandon you.For a long time Israel had no , no priest to teach them, and no .But when they were in distress they to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They looked for him, and he let them find him.In those times there was no for anyone coming or going, because everyone in all the lands was in terrible .Nation was being crushed by nation, and city by city, because God was with every kind of trouble.But you — ! , because your work will be .”When Asa heard these words — the prophecy of Oded the prophet — he took courage. He removed the from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He restored Yahweh’s altar that stood in front of Yahweh’s .Then he gathered all of Judah and Benjamin, along with people from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them — because large numbers had from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.They gathered in Jerusalem in the of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.That day they to Yahweh seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the they had brought back.They entered into a to look for Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their and all their .Anyone who would not look for Yahweh, the God of Israel, would be — whether small or great, man or woman.They to Yahweh with a loud shout, with trumpets blaring and blasting.Everyone in Judah celebrated the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They had looked for him with , and he let them find him. So Yahweh gave them on every side.King Asa also removed his grandmother Maakah from her position as , because she had made a for the goddess . Asa cut down her pole, smashed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.The were not removed from Israel. But Asa’s heart was his whole life.He brought into God’s house the things his father had and the things he himself had given: silver, gold, and various objects.There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.