The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

2 Chronicles 15

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Ketuvim — the Writings

2 Chronicles chapter 15 — part of the Ketuvim — the Writings in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “And the spirit of G-d came upon Azariah the son of Oded;” — the complete text of all 19 verses is below, free to read online.

1And the spirit of G-d came upon Azariah the son of Oded;

2and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him: 'Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: HaShem is with you, while ye are with Him; and if ye seek Him, He will be found of you; but if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.

3Now for long seasons Israel was without the true G-d, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

4but when in their distress they turned unto HaShem, the G-d of Israel, and sought Him, He was found of them.

5And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great discomfitures were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

6And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for G-d did discomfit them with all manner of adversity.

7But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.'

8And when Asa heard these words, even the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the detestable things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of HaShem, that was before the porch of HaShem.

9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that HaShem his G-d was with him.

10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11And they sacrificed unto HaShem in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

12And they entered into the covenant to seek HaShem, the G-d of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

13and that whosoever would not seek HaShem, the G-d of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

14And they swore unto HaShem with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns.

15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire; and He was found of them; and HaShem gave them rest round about.

16And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole all his days.

18And he brought into the house of G-d the things that his father had hallowed, and that he himself had hallowed, silver, and gold, and vessels.

19And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

19 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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