2 Chronicles · Literal Standard Version
2 Chronicles 15 Literal Standard Version
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1 And the Spirit of God has been on Azariah son of Oded,
1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded.
2 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;
2 He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh 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.
3 and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,
3 Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
4 and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them,
4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
5 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,
5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God has troubled them with every adversity;
6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
7 and you, be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.”
7 But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”
8 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,
8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
9 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.
9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
10 And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
11 and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep,
11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, from the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.
12 and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,
12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
13 and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man to woman.
13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
14 And they swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns,
14 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets.
15 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.
15 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. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.
16 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:
16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
17 yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days.
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
18 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.
18 He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.
19 And war has not been until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.
19 There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
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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