8 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of 3Oded the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities jwhich he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the Lord that was before the vestibule of the Lord. 9 Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and kthose who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

10 So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 11 lAnd they offered to the Lord 4at that time seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the 5spoil they had brought. 12 Then they mentered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; 13 nand whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel owas to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.