1 神的灵降在俄德的儿子亚撒利雅身上， 2 亚撒利雅就出来迎接亚撒， 对他说： "亚撒和犹大、便雅悯所有的人哪！ 请听我说。你们跟随耶和华， 耶和华就和你们同在； 你们寻求他， 就必给你们寻见； 你们离弃他， 他必离弃你们。 3 以色列人没有真神， 没有教导他们的祭司， 没有律法， 已经很久了。 4 但他们在遭难的时候， 回转归向耶和华以色列的 神， 寻求他， 他就给他们寻见。 5 那时， 出入的人都没有平安， 因为各国的居民都遭遇动乱。 6 这国攻击那国， 这城攻击那城， 因为 神用各样灾难使他们纷乱。 7 但你们要坚强， 不要胆怯， 因为你们所行的， 必有赏报。" 8 亚撒听了这些话， 和俄德的儿子亚撒利雅先知所说的预言以后， 就勇敢起来， 在犹大、便雅悯全地， 以及以法莲山地夺取的各城， 把可憎的偶像除去， 又在耶和华殿的走廊前面， 重新修造耶和华的祭坛。 9 他又召聚了犹大和便雅悯所有的人， 以及在他们中间寄居的以法莲人、玛拿西人、西缅人。以色列人看见了耶和华亚撒的 神和他同在， 就有很多人投奔亚撒。 10 亚撒在位第十五年三月， 他们聚集在耶路撒冷。 11 那一天， 他们从夺回来的战利品当中， 把七百头牛， 七千只羊， 献给耶和华为祭， 12 他们也立约， 要一心一意寻求耶和华他们列祖的 神。 13 不寻求耶和华以色列的 神的， 无论男女老幼， 都必处死。 14 他们就大声欢呼， 吹起号角， 向耶和华起誓。 15 犹大众人都为了所起的誓快乐， 因为他们一心起誓， 尽意寻求耶和华， 耶和华就给他们寻见， 并且使他们四境安宁。 16 亚撒王也废掉他的祖母玛迦太后的位， 因为她曾给亚舍拉做了可憎的像； 亚撒把她那可憎的像砍了下来， 捣得粉碎， 烧在汲沦溪旁。 17 只是邱坛还没有从以色列中除掉， 但亚撒的心一生都完全忠于耶和华。 18 亚撒把他父亲所分别为圣， 和他自己所分别为圣的金银和器皿， 都送进 神的殿里。 19 从那时， 直到亚撒在位第三十五年， 都没有战争。

1 And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,2 and 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;3 and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,4 and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,5 and 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,6 and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;7 and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.`8 And 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,9 and 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.10 And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,11 and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in -- oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,12 and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,13 and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.14 And they swear to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets,15 and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.16 And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king -- he hath removed her from [being] mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth [it] small, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron:17 yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.18 And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.19 And war hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.