¹And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God, ²and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, ‘Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is with you—in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you; ³and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, ⁴and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them, ⁵and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles are on all the inhabitants of the lands, ⁶and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity; ⁷and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.’

⁸And at Asa’s hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that is before the porch of Jehovah, ⁹and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon—for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God is with him.

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