2 Chronicles 15:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

⁸ When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded,^[a] he took courage, and put away the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the Lord.^{[b] 9} He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing as aliens with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.