2 Chronicles 15:8-15

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁸ When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of^[a] Oded the prophet, he took courage. He put away the disgusting idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord, which was in front of the porch of the Lord’s house.

⁹ He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those who had settled among them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, because people from Israel had gone over to Asa in great numbers since they saw that the Lord his God was with him. ¹⁰ They gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. ¹¹ On that day they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep from the plunder they had brought.

¹² They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul. ¹³ Anyone who did not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old,^[b] man or woman. ¹⁴ They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, and with trumpets and ram’s horns. ¹⁵ All Judah rejoiced over the oath, because they had sworn with all their heart, and they very eagerly sought the Lord. He was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest on every side.