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The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will be with you and help you, as long as you obey and worship him. But if you disobey him, he will desert you.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v14_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.3" class="v14_15_3">3</span>For a long time, the people of Israel did not worship the true God or listen to priests who could teach them about God. They refused to obey God's Law. </span><span class="v14_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.4" class="v14_15_4">4</span>But whenever trouble came, Israel turned back to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> their God and worshiped him.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v14_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.5" class="v14_15_5">5</span>There was so much confusion in those days that it wasn't safe to go anywhere in Israel. </span><span class="v14_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.6" class="v14_15_6">6</span>Nations were destroying each other, and cities were wiping out other cities, because God was causing trouble and unrest everywhere.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v14_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.7" class="v14_15_7">7</span>So you must be brave. Don't give up! God will honor you for obeying him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.8" class="v14_15_8">8</span>As soon as Asa heard what Azariah the prophet said, he gave orders for all the idols in Judah and Benjamin to be destroyed, including those in the towns he had captured in the territory of Ephraim. He also repaired the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s altar that was in front of the temple porch.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.9" class="v14_15_9">9</span>Asa called together the people from Judah and Benjamin, as well as the people from the territories of Ephraim, West Manasseh, and Simeon who were living in Judah. Many of these people were now loyal to Asa, because they had seen that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was with him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.10" class="v14_15_10">10</span>In the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's rule, they all met in Jerusalem. </span><span class="v14_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.11" class="v14_15_11">11</span>That same day, they took 700 bulls and 7,000 sheep and goats from what they had brought back from Gerar and sacrificed them as offerings to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v14_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.12" class="v14_15_12">12</span>They made a solemn promise to faithfully worship the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God their ancestors had worshiped, </span><span class="v14_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.13" class="v14_15_13">13</span>and to put to death anyone who refused to obey him. </span><span class="v14_15_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.14" class="v14_15_14">14</span>The crowd solemnly agreed to keep their promise to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, then they celebrated by shouting and blowing trumpets and horns. </span><span class="v14_15_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.15" class="v14_15_15">15</span>Everyone was happy because they had made this solemn promise, and in return, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> blessed them with peace from all their enemies.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.16" class="v14_15_16">16</span>Asa's grandmother Maacah had made a disgusting idol of the goddess Asherah, so he cut it down, crushed it, and burned it in Kidron Valley. Then he removed Maacah from her position as queen mother.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.15.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v14_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.17" class="v14_15_17">17</span>As long as Asa lived, he was faithful to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, even though he did not destroy the local shrines<a href="#fn" id="link_2Chr.15.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> in Israel. </span><span class="v14_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.18" class="v14_15_18">18</span>He placed in the temple all the silver and gold objects that he and his father had dedicated to God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v14_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Chr.15.19" class="v14_15_19">19</span>There was peace in Judah until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's rule.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">queen mother: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “the mother of the king,” which was an important position in biblical times (see 1 Kings 2.19).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">local shrines: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 11.15.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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