2 Chronicles · Bible in Basic English
2 Chronicles 15 Bible in Basic English
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1 And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;
1 Y FUÉ el espíritu de Dios sobre Azarías hijo de Obed;
2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
2 Y salió al encuentro á Asa, y díjole: Oidme, Asa, y todo Judá y Benjamín: Jehová es con vosotros, si vosotros fuereis con él: y si le buscareis, será hallado de vosotros; mas si le dejareis, él también os dejará.
3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;
3 Muchos días ha estado Israel sin verdadero Dios y sin sacerdote, y sin enseñador y sin ley:
4 But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
4 Mas cuando en su tribulación se convirtieron á Jehová Dios de Israel, y le buscaron, él fué hallado de ellos.
5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.
5 En aquellos tiempos no hubo paz, ni para el que entraba, ni para el que salía, sino muchas aflicciones sobre todos los habitadores de las tierras.
6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
6 Y la una gente destruía á la otra, y una ciudad á otra ciudad: porque Dios los conturbó con todas calamidades.
7 But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
7 Esforzaos empero vosotros, y no desfallezcan vuestras manos; que salario hay para vuestra obra.
8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
8 Y como oyó Asa las palabras y profecía de Obed profeta, fué confortado, y quitó las abominaciones de toda la tierra de Judá y de Benjamín, y de las ciudades que él había tomado en el monte de Ephraim; y reparó el altar de Jehová que estaba delante del pórtico de Jehová.
9 And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
9 Después hizo juntar á todo Judá y Benjamín, y con ellos los extranjeros de Ephraim, y de Manasés, y de Simeón: porque muchos de Israel se habían pasado á él, viendo que Jehová su Dios era con él.
10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.
10 Juntáronse pues en Jerusalem en el mes tercero del año décimoquinto del reinado de Asa.
11 And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
11 Y en aquel mismo día sacrificaron á Jehová, de los despojos que habían traído, setecientos bueyes y siete mil ovejas.
12 And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
12 Y entraron en concierto de que buscarían á Jehová el Dios de sus padres, de todo su corazón y de toda su alma;
13 And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.
13 Y que cualquiera que no buscase á Jehová el Dios de Israel, muriese, grande ó pequeño, hombre ó mujer.
14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.
14 Y juraron á Jehová con gran voz y júbilo, á son de trompetas y de bocinas:
15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.
15 Del cual juramento todos los de Judá se alegraron; porque de todo su corazón lo juraban, y de toda su voluntad lo buscaban: y fué hallado de ellos; y dióles Jehová reposo de todas partes.
16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.
16 Y aun á Maachâ madre del rey Asa, él [mismo] la depuso de su dignidad, porque había hecho un ídolo en el bosque: y Asa deshizo su ídolo, y lo desmenuzó, y quemó en el torrente de Cedrón.
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
17 Mas con todo eso los altos no eran quitados de Israel, aunque el corazón de Asa fué perfecto mientras vivió.
18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.
18 Y metió en la casa de Dios lo que su padre había dedicado, y lo que él había consagrado, plata y oro y vasos.
19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.
19 Y no hubo guerra hasta los treinta y cinco años del reinado de Asa.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Asa
A reforming king who tore down idols and trusted the LORD against vast armies.
Cited in the guide: 1 Kings 15:9-24; 2 Chron. 14-16; Matt. 1:7-8
Azariah
Son of Oded on whom the Spirit of God came; he told Asa and Judah that the LORD is with them when they are with Him, prompting Asa's reforms.
Cited in the guide: 2 Chronicles 15:1; 2 Chronicles 15:8
Oded
Named as the father of Azariah the prophet; the prophecy is called Oded's in some readings.
Cited in the guide: 2 Chronicles 15:1; 2 Chronicles 15:8
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Chronicles 20:14; 2 Chronicles 24:20; Numbers 24:2; Judges 3:10; 2 Peter 1:21
- 2 James 4:8; 2 Chronicles 24:20; 2 Chronicles 15:4; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Jeremiah 29:12–14
- 3 Nehemiah 8:9; Leviticus 10:11; 2 Chronicles 17:8–9; Jeremiah 10:10; Micah 3:11
- 4 Isaiah 55:6; Deuteronomy 4:29–30; 2 Chronicles 15:15; Isaiah 65:1–2; Hosea 6:1
- 5 Judges 5:6; Psalm 121:8; 1 Samuel 13:6; Matthew 24:6–7; Luke 21:25
- 6 Luke 21:22–24; 2 Chronicles 12:15; Isaiah 10:6; Mark 13:8; Judges 2:14
- 7 1 Corinthians 15:58; Joshua 1:7; Hebrews 10:35; Joshua 1:9; 1 Chronicles 28:20
- 8 2 Chronicles 8:12; 2 Chronicles 13:19; 2 Chronicles 4:1; 1 Kings 11:7; Leviticus 18:30
- 9 2 Chronicles 11:16; Acts 9:31; Zechariah 8:21–23; 1 Chronicles 12:19; 2 Chronicles 30:1–11
- 10 Esther 8:9
- 11 2 Chronicles 14:13–15; 1 Samuel 15:21; 2 Chronicles 7:5; Numbers 31:28–29; 1 Samuel 15:15
- 12 Acts 24:14; 2 Chronicles 23:16; Deuteronomy 10:12; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 15:4
- 13 Exodus 22:20; Deuteronomy 29:18; Deuteronomy 17:2–5; Acts 26:22; Psalm 115:13
- 14 Nehemiah 5:13; Psalm 81:1–4; Nehemiah 10:29
- 15 2 Chronicles 14:7; 2 Chronicles 15:12; Isaiah 26:8; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Psalm 32:11
- 16 1 Kings 15:13–24; 1 Kings 15:2; 2 Kings 23:15; Exodus 34:13; 2 Kings 23:6
- 17 1 Kings 11:4; 2 Chronicles 14:3–5; 2 Kings 14:4; Deuteronomy 12:13–14; 1 Kings 22:43
- 18 1 Kings 7:51; 1 Chronicles 26:20–26; 1 Kings 15:14–15
- 19 2 Chronicles 16:1; 1 Kings 15:16–17; 1 Kings 15:33; 1 Kings 15:31
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… and David says distinctly, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and in the Psalms, And take not thy Holy Spirit from me, and again, Thy good Spirit shall lead me in the land of righteousness. And as we have it in Chronicles, Azariah, in the time of King Asa, and Jahaziel in the time of King Jehoshaphat, …
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