2 Chronicles 15 (NET)

2 Chronicles 15:1¹God’s Spirit came upon Azariah son of Oded.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:142 Chr 24:20Num 24:2Judg 3:102 Pet 1:212 Sam 23:2

2 Chronicles 15:2²He met Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:82 Chr 24:202 Chr 15:41 Chr 28:9Heb 10:38Jer 29:12-14Isa 55:6-72 Chr 15:15Heb 12:25Matt 7:7-8

2 Chronicles 15:3³For a long time Israel had not sought the one true God, or a priest to instruct them, or the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 8:92 Chr 17:8-9Lev 10:11Jer 10:10Ezek 44:21-23Hos 3:4Mal 2:7Matt 2:4-5Mic 3:111 Kgs 12:28-33

2 Chronicles 15:4⁴Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 55:6Deut 4:29-302 Chr 15:15Hos 6:1Isa 65:1-2Hos 14:1-3Ps 106:44Rom 10:20Judg 10:10-16Judg 3:9-10

2 Chronicles 15:5⁵In those days no one could travel safely, for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Judg 5:6Ps 121:81 Sam 13:6Matt 24:6-7Luke 21:25

2 Chronicles 15:6⁶One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 21:22-242 Chr 12:152 Chr 13:172 Chr 33:112 Chr 36:17Amos 3:6Isa 10:6Judg 2:14Luke 21:9-10Mark 13:8

2 Chronicles 15:7⁷But as for you, be strong and don’t get discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:58Josh 1:7Heb 10:35Josh 1:91 Chr 28:20Gen 15:12 John 1:8Ps 58:11Heb 6:10Col 3:24

2 Chronicles 15:8⁸When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord ’s temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 13:192 Chr 8:122 Chr 4:11 Kgs 11:51 Kgs 11:71 Pet 4:32 Chr 19:112 Chr 29:182 Kgs 16:142 Kgs 18:22

2 Chronicles 15:9⁹He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:16Acts 9:31Zech 8:21-231 Chr 12:191 Kgs 12:191 Kgs 3:281 Sam 18:282 Chr 30:1-112 Chr 30:25Acts 7:9-10

2 Chronicles 15:10¹⁰They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Esth 8:9

2 Chronicles 15:11¹¹At that time they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 14:13-151 Chr 26:26-271 Sam 15:151 Sam 15:212 Chr 1:62 Chr 7:5Num 31:28-29Num 31:50

2 Chronicles 15:12¹²They solemnly agreed to seek the Lord God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 24:142 Chr 23:16Deut 10:122 Chr 29:101 Kgs 8:482 Chr 15:42 Chr 34:31-322 Cor 8:52 Kgs 23:3Deut 29:1

2 Chronicles 15:13¹³Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, male or female.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 22:20Deut 29:181 Kgs 18:40Acts 26:22Deut 13:5-15Deut 17:2-5Ps 115:13Rev 20:12Exod 12:29Gen 19:11

2 Chronicles 15:14¹⁴They swore their allegiance to the Lord, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 10:29Neh 5:13Ps 81:1-4

2 Chronicles 15:15¹⁵All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the Lord and he responded to them. He made them secure on every side.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 14:72 Chr 15:122 Cor 1:12Isa 26:82 Chr 15:4Ps 119:111Ps 32:112 Chr 15:22 Chr 15:62 Chr 29:36

2 Chronicles 15:16¹⁶King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:13-241 Kgs 15:101 Kgs 15:22 Kgs 23:152 Kgs 23:6Exod 34:132 Chr 14:2-52 Chr 34:72 Cor 5:162 Kgs 23:12

2 Chronicles 15:17¹⁷The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:41 Kgs 22:432 Chr 14:3-52 Kgs 12:32 Kgs 14:4Deut 12:13-141 Kgs 3:2-42 Chr 16:7-12

2 Chronicles 15:18¹⁸He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 26:20-261 Kgs 15:14-151 Kgs 7:51

2 Chronicles 15:19¹⁹There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:16-171 Kgs 15:311 Kgs 15:332 Chr 16:1