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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 15 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > 2 Chronicles 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/14.htm" title="2 Chronicles 14">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 15 <a href="../2_chronicles/16.htm" title="2 Chronicles 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/15-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the Spirit of God has been on Azariah son of Oded, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and he goes out before Asa and says to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; YHWH [is] with you—in your being with Him, and if you seek Him, He is found by you, and if you forsake Him, He forsakes you; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and in those times there is no peace for him who is going out, and for him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God has troubled them with every adversity; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and you, be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And at Asa’s hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he has strengthened himself, and causes the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he has captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and renews the altar of YHWH that [is] before the porch of YHWH, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and gathers all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon—for they have defected to him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that his God YHWH [is] with him. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man to woman. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and all Judah rejoices concerning the oath, for they have sworn with all their heart, and they have sought Him with all their goodwill, and He is found by them, and YHWH gives rest to them all around.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king—he has removed her from [being] mistress, in that she has made for an Asherah a horrible thing, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and beats [it] small, and burns [it] by the Brook of Kidron: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And war has not been until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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