2Chr 15
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And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,
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And 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.
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And many days shall pass in Israel without the true God, and without a priest a teacher,
and without the law.
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And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall
seek him, they shall find him.
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At 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.
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For nation shall fight against nation, and city against city, for the Lord will trouble
them with all distress.
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Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands he weakened: for there shall
be a reward for your work.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of
the reign of Asa,
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They 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.
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And 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.
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And if any one, said he, seek not the Lord the God of Israel, let him die, whether
little or great, man or woman.
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And they swore to the Lord with a loud voice with joyful shouting, and with sound
of trumpet, and sound of comets,
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All that mere 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.
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Moreover 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.
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But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all
his days.
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And 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.
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And there was no war unto the five and thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.