Chapter 15. Now the spirit of God Came Upon Azariah The son of odid And he went out to meet ASA and said to Him Hear me Acer and all Judah and Benjamin The Lord is with you while you are with Him If you seek Him He will be found by you But if you forsake Him He will forsake You For a long time Israel has been without The true God without a teaching priest And without law But when in their trouble they turned to The Lord God of Israel and sought him he Was found by them And in those times there was no peace to The one who went out nor to the one who Came in but great turmoil was on all the Inhabitants of the lands So nation was destroyed by nation and City by City For God troubled them with every Adversity But you be strong and do not let your Hands be weak for your work shall be Rewarded And when Acer heard these words and the Prophecy of odid the prophet he took Courage and removed the Abominable Idols From all the land of Judah and Benjamin And from the cities which he had taken In the mountains of Ephraim
And He restored the altar of the Lord That was before the vestibule of the Lord Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin And those who dwelt with them from Ephraim Manasseh and Simeon For they came over to him in great Numbers from Israel when they saw that The Lord his God was with him So they gathered together at Jerusalem In the third month in the 15th year of The reign of Asa And they offered to the Lord at that Time 700 bulls and seven thousand sheep From the spoil they had brought Then they entered into a covenant to Seek the Lord God of their fathers with All their heart and with all their soul And whoever would not seek the Lord God Of Israel was to be put to death whether Small or great with a man or woman Then they took an oath before the Lord With a loud voice with shouting and Trumpets and Ram's horns And all Judah rejoiced at the oath for They had sworn with all their heart and Sought him with all their soul And he was found by them and the lord Gave them rest all around Also he removed mayaka the mother of Asa The king from being Queen Mother Because she had made an obscene image of Ashira And ASA cut down her obscene image then
Crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron But the high places were not removed From Israel Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal All his days He also brought into the house of God The things that his father had dedicated And that he himself had dedicated Silver and gold and utensils And there was no war until the 35th year Of the reign of Asa