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亚撒纳亚撒利雅之劝勉

15 神的灵感动俄德的儿子亚撒利雅 他出来迎接亚撒,对他说:“亚撒犹大便雅悯众人哪,要听我说!你们若顺从耶和华,耶和华必与你们同在。你们若寻求他,就必寻见;你们若离弃他,他必离弃你们。 以色列人不信真神,没有训诲的祭司,也没有律法,已经好久了, 但他们在急难的时候归向耶和华以色列的神,寻求他,他就被他们寻见。 那时,出入的人不得平安,列国的居民都遭大乱, 这国攻击那国,这城攻击那城,互相破坏,因为神用各样灾难扰乱他们。 现在你们要刚强,不要手软,因你们所行的必得赏赐。”

奋志除诸可憎之物

亚撒听见这话和俄德儿子先知亚撒利雅的预言,就壮起胆来,在犹大便雅悯全地并以法莲山地所夺的各城,将可憎之物尽都除掉,又在耶和华殿的廊前重新修筑耶和华的坛。 又招聚犹大便雅悯的众人,并他们中间寄居的以法莲人、玛拿西人、西缅人:有许多以色列人归降亚撒,因见耶和华他的神与他同在。 10 亚撒十五年三月,他们都聚集在耶路撒冷 11 当日,他们从所取的掳物中将牛七百只、羊七千只献给耶和华。 12 他们就立约,要尽心、尽性地寻求耶和华他们列祖的神, 13 凡不寻求耶和华以色列神的,无论大小、男女,必被治死。 14 他们就大声欢呼,吹号吹角,向耶和华起誓。 15 犹大众人为所起的誓欢喜。因他们是尽心起誓,尽意寻求耶和华,耶和华就被他们寻见,且赐他们四境平安。

贬祖母玛迦之后位

16 亚撒王贬了他祖母玛迦太后的位,因她造了可憎的偶像亚舍拉亚撒砍下她的偶像,捣得粉碎,烧在汲沦溪边。 17 只是丘坛还没有从以色列中废去,然而亚撒的心一生诚实。 18 亚撒将他父所分别为圣与自己所分别为圣的金银和器皿,都奉到神的殿里。 19 从这时直到亚撒三十五年,都没有争战的事。

15 Then the Spirit of God came upon Azariah, the son of Obed.

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “O, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me! The LORD is with you while you are with him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

“Now for a long season, Israel has been without the true God, and without priest to teach, and without Law.

“But whoever returned in his affliction to the LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, he was found by Him.

“And in that time there was no peace to him who went out and went in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the Earth.

“For nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city. For God troubled them with all adversity.

“Be strong, therefore! And do not let your hands be weak. For your work shall have a reward.”

And when Asa heard these Words, and the Prophecy of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged and took away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken on Mount Ephraim. And he renewed the Altar of the LORD that was in front of the Porch of the LORD.

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon. For many fell to him out of Israel, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

10 So, they assembled to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11 And at that time, they offered to the LORD from the spoil they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

12 And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul.

13 And whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel shall be killed, whether small or great, man or woman.

14 And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn to the LORD with all their heart and sought Him with a whole desire. And He was found by them. And the LORD gave them rest all around.

16 And King Asa deposed Maachah, his mother, from her regency, because she had made an idol in a grove. And Asa broke down her idol and stamped it and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Still, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

18 Also, he brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he had dedicated, into the House of God: silver and gold and vessels.

19 And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.