2 Chronicles 15:1–9

And ^athe Spirit of God came upon ^bAzariah the son of Oded: ²And he went out ^†to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and ^cif ye seek him, he will be found of you; but ^dif ye forsake him, he will forsake you. ³Now ^efor a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without ^fa teaching priest, and without law. ⁴But ^gwhen they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. ⁵And ^hin those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. ⁶And nation was ^†destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity. ⁷Be ⁱye strong therefore, and let not ^kyour hands be weak: for ^lyour work shall be rewarded.

⁸And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of ^bOded the prophet, he took courage, and ^mput away the ^†abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities ⁿwhich he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was ^obefore the porch of the Lord. ⁹And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and ^pthe strangers 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 the Lord his God was with him.