1 And the Ruaḥ of Elohim came upon Azaryahu son of Oḏĕḏ.
2 And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Yahuḏah and Binyamin. 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you.
3 “And for many days Yisra’ĕl has been without the true Elohim, and without a Torah kohĕn, and without Torah.
4 “But in their distress they turned to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, and they sought Him, and He was found by them.
5 “And in those days there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, for great disturbances were on all the inhabitants of the lands,
6 and they were beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for Elohim troubled them with every distress.
7 “But you, be strong and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work!”
8 And when Asa heard these words and the neḇuah of Oḏĕḏ the naḇi, he took courage, and removed the abominations from all the land of Yahuḏah and Binyamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephrayim, and restored the altar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 that was before the porch of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
9 and gathered all Yahuḏah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shim’on, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra’ĕl when they saw that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 his Elohim was with him.
10 And they gathered together at Yerushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
11 and offered to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 on that day seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the spoil which they had brought.
12 And they entered into a covenant to seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of their fathers with all their heart and with all their being;
13 and whoever would not seek 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of Yisra’ĕl would be put to death, from small to great, from man to woman.
14 And they swore to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 with a loud voice, with shouting and with trumpets and with rams’ horns.
15 And all Yahuḏah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their being. And He was found by them, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave them rest all around.
16 And he also removed Ma’aḵah, the mother of Asa the sovereign, from being sovereigness mother, because she had made an abominable image of Ashĕrah. And Asa cut down her abominable image, and crushed it, and burned it by the wadi Qiḏron.
17 Yet the high places were not removed from Yisra’ĕl. However, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
18 And he brought into the House of Elohim the qodesh items of his father and his own qodesh items: silver and gold and utensils.
19 And there was no more fighting until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.