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2 Chronicles 15

8 The exhortatiõ of Azariáh 8 Aſá purgeth his coũtrey of idolatrie 11 He ſacrificeth with the people. 14 Thei ſweare together to ſerue the Lord. 16. He depoſeth his mother for her idolatrie.
1.THen the Spirit of God came vpon Azariáh the ſonne of Odéd.
2.And he went out to mete Aſa, and ſaid vnto him, O Aſa, and all Iudáh, and Beniamín, heare ye me. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye ſeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forſake him, he wil forſake you.
3.Now for a long ſeaſon Iſraél hathe bene without the true God, & without Prieſt to teache and without Lawe.
4.But whoſoeuer returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Iſraél, and ſoght him, he was founde of them.
5.And in that time there was no peace to him, that did go out and go in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.
6.For nacion was deſtroyed of nacion, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduerſitie.
7.Be ye ſtrong therefore, and let not your hãds be weake: for your worke ſhal haue a rewarde.
8.¶ And when Aſa heard theſe wordes, and the prophecie of Odéd the Prophet, he was encouraged, and toke away the abominacions out of all the land of Iudáh, & Beniamín, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephráim, and he renued the altar of the Lord, that was before the porche of the Lord.
9.And he gathered all Iudáh & Beniamín, & the ſtrangers with thẽ out of Ephráim, and Manaſſéh & out of Simeón: for there fell many to him out of Iſraél, when they ſawe that the Lord his God was with him.
10.So they aſſembled to Ieruſalém in the third moneth, in the fiftente yere of the reigne of Aſa.
11.And they offred vnto the Lord the ſame time of the ſpoyle, which thei had broght, euen ſeuen hundreth bullockes, and ſeuen thouſand ſhepe.
12.And they made a couenant to ſeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their ſoule.
13.And whoſoeuer wil not ſeke the Lord God of Iſraél, ſhal be ſlayne, whether he were ſmall or great, man or woman.
14.And they ſware vnto the Lord with a loude voyce, and with ſhouting and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15.And all Iudáh reioyced at the othe: for they had ſworne vnto the Lord with all their heart, and ſoght him with a whole deſire, and he was founde of them. And the Lord gaue them reſt rounde about.
16.¶ And King Aſa depoſed Maacháh his mother from her regẽcie, becauſe ſhe had made an idole in a groue: and Aſa brake downe her idole, & ſtamped it, and burnt it at the broke Kidrón.
17.But the hie places were not taken away out of Iſraél: yet the heart of Aſa was perfite all his dayes.
18.Alſo he broght into the houſe of God the things that his father had dedicate, & that he had dedicate, ſiluer, and golde, & veſſels.
19.And there was no warre vnto the fiue & thirtieth yere of the reigne of Aſa.

Notes

1:a.
Who was called Oded, as his father was, verſ. 8.
3:b.
For the ſpace of twelue yeres vnder Rehoboam, and thre yeres vnder Abiiah, religiõ was neglected and idolatrie planted.
5:c.
He ſheweth, that notwithſtanding the wickednes of tyrãts & their rage, yet God hath his, whome he heareth in their tribulacion, as he deliuered his from Zerah King of the Ethiopians, & out of all other dangers, when thei called vpon the Lord
7:d.
Your confidence & truſt in God ſhal not be fruſtrat
10:e.
Called Shiuan, conteinig parte of May and parte of Iune
11:f.
Which they had taken of the Ethiopiãs.
13:g.
Theſe were the wordes of their couenãt, which cõmanded all idolaters to be put to death according to the Lawe of God, Deut. 13
15:h.
So long as thei ſerued hĩ aright, ſo long did he preſerue & proſper them
16:i.
Or grandmother & herein he ſhewed yt he lacked zeale: for ſhe oght to haue dyed bothe by the couenant, and by the Lawe of God: but he gaue place to fooliſh pitie, & wolde alſo ſeme after a ſorte to ſatiſfie the Lawe
17:k.
Which partely came through lacke of zeale in hĩ, partly through the negligence of his officers, & partely by the ſuperſticiõ of the people, that all were not taken away.
17:l.
Becauſe that God was called the God of Iſraél by reaſon of his promes to Iaakób; therefore Iſraél is ſome time taken for Iudáh, becauſe Iudáh was his chief people.
17:m.
In reſpect of his predeceſſors.