014:014 They struck all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them. 014:015 They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem. 015:001 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: 015:002 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 015:003 Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law: 015:004 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. 015:005 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands. 015:006 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity. 015:007 But be you strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded. 015:008 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations 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 Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh. 015:009 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who 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 Yahweh his God was with him. 015:010 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 015:011 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. 015:012 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; 015:013 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 015:014 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. 015:015 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 Yahweh gave them rest round about. 015:016 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed 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.