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,