2 Chronicles 15
15
1 God’s Spirit came upon Azariah son of Oded. 2 He met#tn Heb “went out before.” Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him.#tn Heb “when you are with him.” If you seek him, he will respond to you,#tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.” but if you reject him, he will reject you. 3 For a long time#tn Heb “Many days.” Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law. 4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.#tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.” 5 In those days#tn Heb “times.” no one could travel safely,#tn Heb “there was peace for the one going out or the one coming in.” for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.#tn Heb “for great confusion was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.” 6 One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.#tn Heb “threw them into confusion with all distress.” 7 But as for you, be strong and don’t get discouraged,#tn Heb “and let not your hands drop.” for your work will be rewarded.”#tn Heb “for there is payment for your work.”
8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged.#tn Heb “strengthened himself.” He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple.#tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”
9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers#tn Or “resident aliens.” from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live#tn Heb “had fallen upon him.” when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. 10 They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. 11 At that time#tn Or “In that day.” they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep.#tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tso’n) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other. 12 They solemnly agreed#tn Heb “entered into a covenant.” to seek the Lord God of their ancestors#tn Heb “fathers.” with their whole heart and being. 13 Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old,#tn Heb “whether small or great.” male or female. 14 They swore their allegiance to the Lord, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.#tn Heb “with a loud voice and with a shout and with trumpets and with horns.” 15 All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the Lord and he responded to them.#tn Heb “and with all their desire they sought him and he allowed himself to be found by them.” He made them secure on every side.#tn Heb “and the Lord gave them rest all around.”
16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother#tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors. from her position as queen mother#tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah. because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.#tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete all his days.” 18 He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.#tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”
Asa’s Failures
19 There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
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2 Chronicles 15
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1Then the Spirite of God came vpon Azariah the sonne of Obed. 2And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. 3Nowe for a long season Israel hath bene without the true God, and without Priest to teach and without Lawe. 4But whosoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was founde of them. 5And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth. 6For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduersitie. 7Be ye strong therefore, and let not your handes be weake: for your worke shall haue a rewarde. 8And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lord, that was before the porche of the Lord. 9And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lord his God was with him. 10So they assembled to Ierusalem in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yere of the reigne of Asa. 11And they offred vnto the Lord the same time of the spoyle, which they had brought, euen seuen hundreth bullockes, and seuen thousande sheepe. 12And they made a couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule. 13And whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of Israel, shalbe slaine, whether he were small or great, man or woman. 14And they sware vnto the Lord with a loude voyce, and with shouting and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15And all Iudah reioyced at the othe: for they had sworne vnto the Lord with all their heart, and sought him with a whole desire, and he was founde of them. And the Lord gaue them rest rounde about. 16And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron. 17But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes. 18Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels. 19And there was no warre vnto the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.
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