1 | The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: | 2Ch 20:14 2Ch 24:20 Nm 24:2 Jg 3:10 2Sa 23:2 2Pe 1:21 |
2 | and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. | 2Ch 13:4 2Ch 20:15 2Ch 20:20 Jg 9:7 Ps 49:1 Ps 49:2 Isa 7:13 Mt 13:9 Rev 2:7 Rev 2:11 Rev 2:17 Rev 2:29 Rev 3:6 Rev 3:13 Rev 3:22 |
3 | Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: | 1Ki 12:28-33 Hos 3:4 |
4 | But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. | Dt 4:29 Dt 4:30 Jg 3:9 Jg 3:10 Jg 10:10-16 Ps 106:44 Hos 6:1 Hos 14:1-3 |
5 | In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands. | Jg 5:6 1Sa 13:6 Ps 121:8 |
6 | They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity. | 2Ch 12:15 2Ch 13:17 Mk 13:8 Lk 21:9 Lk 21:10 |
7 | But be you strong, and don`t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded. | Jsh 1:7 Jsh 1:9 1Ch 28:20 Ps 27:14 Isa 35:3 Isa 35:4 Dn 10:19 1Co 16:13 Eph 6:10 |
8 | When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. | 2Ch 19:11 Isa 44:14 Ac 28:15 |
9 | He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. | 2Ch 11:16 2Ch 30:1-11 2Ch 30:25-11 |
10 | So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. | Es 8:9 |
11 | They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. | 2Ch 14:13-15 Nm 31:28 Nm 31:29 Nm 31:50 1Sa 15:15 1Sa 15:21 1Ch 26:26 1Ch 26:27 |
12 | They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; | 2Ch 23:16 2Ch 29:10 2Ch 34:31 2Ch 34:32 Dt 29:1 Dt 29:12 2Ki 23:3 Ne 9:38 Ne 10:29 Jer 50:5 2Co 8:5 |
13 | and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. | Ex 22:20 Dt 13:5-15 Dt 17:2-5 1Ki 18:40 |
14 | They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. | Ne 5:13 Ne 10:29 |
15 | All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them rest round about. | 2Ch 23:16-21 2Ch 29:10 2Ch 29:36 Dt 26:11 Ne 8:9 Ps 32:11 Ps 119:111 Pr 3:17 2Co 1:12 |
16 | Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. | 1Ki 15:13-24 |
17 | But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. | 2Ch 14:3-5 Dt 12:13 Dt 12:14 1Ki 3:2-4 1Ki 22:43 2Ki 12:3 2Ki 14:4 |
18 | He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. | 1Ki 7:51 1Ki 15:14 1Ki 15:15 1Ch 26:20-26 |
19 | There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa. | 2Ch 16:1 1Ki 15:16 1Ki 15:17 1Ki 15:31 1Ki 15:33 |