2Chronicles:15

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bbe @2Chronicles:15:1 @And the spirit of God came on Azariah , the son of Oded ; bbe @2Chronicles:15:2 @And he came face to face with Asa and said to him , Give ear to me , Asa and all Judah and Benjamin : the Lord is with you while you are with him ; if your heart 's desire is for him , he will be near you , but if you give him up , he will give you up . bbe @2Chronicles:15:3 @Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God , and without a teaching priest and without the law ; bbe @2Chronicles:15:4 @But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord , the God of Israel , searching after him , he let their search be rewarded . bbe @2Chronicles:15:5 @In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in , but great trouble was on all the people of the lands . bbe @2Chronicles:15:6 @And they were broken by divisions , nation against nation and town against town , because God sent all sorts of trouble on them . bbe @2Chronicles:15:7 @But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble , for your work will be rewarded . bbe @2Chronicles:15:8 @And Asa , hearing these words of Azariah , the son of Oded the prophet , took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin , and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim ; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord 's house . bbe @2Chronicles:15:9 @And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them ; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him . bbe @2Chronicles:15:10 @So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month , in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa . bbe @2Chronicles:15:11 @And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war , seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep . bbe @2Chronicles:15:12 @And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord , the God of their fathers , with all their heart and all their soul ; bbe @2Chronicles:15:13 @And that anyone , small or great , man or woman , who was not true to the Lord , the God of Israel , would be put to death . bbe @2Chronicles:15:14 @And they made an oath to the Lord , with a loud voice , sounding wind-instruments and horns . bbe @2Chronicles:15:15 @And all Judah was glad because of the oath , for they had taken it with all their heart , turning to the Lord with all their desire ; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side . bbe @2Chronicles:15:16 @And Asa would not let Maacah , his mother , be queen , because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah ; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron . bbe @2Chronicles:15:17 @But the high places were not taken away out of Israel ; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life . bbe @2Chronicles:15:18 @He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy , silver and gold and vessels . bbe @2Chronicles:15:19 @And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa

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