2 Chronicles 15
The Spirit of God came on Azariah Ibn Oded: 2and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Binyamin: Allah is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 3Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without the Taurat: 4But when in their distress they turned to Allah, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. 5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands. 6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity. 7But be strong, and do not let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded. 8When 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 Binyamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Allah, that was before the porch of Allah. 9He gathered all Judah and Binyamin, and those who resided with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Allah his God was with him. 10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11They sacrificed to Allah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 12They entered into the covenant to seek Allah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; 13and that whoever would not seek Allah, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 14They swore to Allah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Allah gave them rest all around. 16Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 18He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. 19There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.