2 Chronicles 15:8–15

Asa’s Reforms

⁸Now when Asa heard these words and the ¹prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from ^athe cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. ^bHe then restored the altar of the Lord which was in front of the porch of the Lord.

⁹He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon ^awho resided with them, for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

¹⁰So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

^11aThey sacrificed to the Lord that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought.

^12aThey entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

¹³and whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel ^ashould be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

¹⁴Moreover, they made an oath to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets and with horns.

¹⁵All Judah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with their whole heart and had sought Him ¹earnestly, and He let them find Him. So ^athe Lord gave them rest on every side.