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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_chronicles/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Asa’s Religious Reforms</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The Spirit of God came<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or was">a</a></sup></span> upon Azariah the son of Oded, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but when in their distress they turned to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the vestibule of the LORD">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God was with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They sacrificed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they entered into a covenant to seek the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>but that whoever would not seek the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They swore an oath to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave them rest all around.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>was</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Hebrew <i>the vestibule of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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