English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Chronicles Book, chapter 15, verse 1 in Mkjv Version

2 Chronicles 15 : 1 (MKJV)

And the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded.

2 Chronicles 15 : 2 (MKJV)

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

2 Chronicles 15 : 3 (MKJV)

And for a long time Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

2 Chronicles 15 : 4 (MKJV)

And when they turned in their trouble to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

2 Chronicles 15 : 5 (MKJV)

And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great tumult was on all the people of the lands.

2 Chronicles 15 : 6 (MKJV)

And nation was beaten by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every distress.

2 Chronicles 15 : 7 (MKJV)

But you be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

2 Chronicles 15 : 8 (MKJV)

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim. And he renewed the altar of Jehovah before the porch of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 15 : 9 (MKJV)

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon. For they fell to him out of Israel in great numbers, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 15 : 10 (MKJV)

And they gathered to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2 Chronicles 15 : 11 (MKJV)

And they offered to Jehovah in that day part of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 15 : 12 (MKJV)

And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul,

2 Chronicles 15 : 13 (MKJV)

and that whoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

2 Chronicles 15 : 14 (MKJV)

And they swore to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with ram's horns.

2 Chronicles 15 : 15 (MKJV)

And 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 by them, and Jehovah gave them rest all around.

2 Chronicles 15 : 16 (MKJV)

And also as to Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen mother, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa cut down her idol and stamped it and burned it at the torrent Kidron.

2 Chronicles 15 : 17 (MKJV)

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. But the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 15 : 18 (MKJV)

And he brought into the house of God the things which his father had dedicated, and which he himself had dedicated, silver and gold and vessels.

2 Chronicles 15 : 19 (MKJV)

And there was no war to the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.