The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded. 2Ch 20:142Ch 24:20Num 24:22Pe 1:21Jdg 3:102Sa 23:2 He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! 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. Jas 4:82Ch 24:202Ch 15:41Ch 28:9Heb 10:38Jer 29:12-14Isa 55:6-72Ch 15:15 Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law. Neh 8:92Ch 17:8-9Lev 10:11Jer 10:10Ezk 44:21-23Hos 3:4Mal 2:7Mat 2:4-5 But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. Isa 55:6Deu 4:29-302Ch 15:15Hos 6:1Isa 65:1-2Hos 14:1-3Psa 106:44Rom 10:20 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands. Jdg 5:6Psa 121:81Sa 13:6Mat 24:6-7Luk 21:25 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity. Luk 21:22-242Ch 12:152Ch 13:172Ch 33:112Ch 36:17Amo 3:6Isa 10:6Jdg 2:14 But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.” 1Co 15:58Jos 1:7Heb 10:35Jos 1:91Ch 28:20Gen 15:12Jn 1:8Psa 58:11
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 LORD’s altar that was before the LORD’s porch. 2Ch 13:192Ch 8:122Ch 4:11Ki 11:51Ki 11:71Pe 4:32Ch 19:112Ch 29:18 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. 2Ch 11:16Act 9:31Zec 8:21-231Ch 12:191Ki 12:191Ki 3:281Sa 18:282Ch 30:1-11 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. Est 8:9 They sacrificed to the LORD in that day, from the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep. 2Ch 14:13-151Ch 26:26-271Sa 15:151Sa 15:212Ch 1:62Ch 7:5Num 31:28-29Num 31:50 They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; Act 24:142Ch 23:16Deu 10:122Ch 29:101Ki 8:482Ch 15:42Ch 34:31-322Co 8:5 and that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. Exo 22:20Deu 29:181Ki 18:40Act 26:22Deu 13:5-15Deu 17:2-5Psa 115:13Rev 20:12 They swore to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets. Neh 10:29Neh 5:13Psa 81:1-4 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 by them. Then the LORD gave them rest all around. 2Ch 14:72Ch 15:122Co 1:12Isa 26:82Ch 15:4Psa 119:111Psa 32:112Ch 15:2
Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 1Ki 15:13-241Ki 15:101Ki 15:22Ki 23:152Ki 23:6Exo 34:132Ch 14:2-52Ch 34:7 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 1Ki 11:41Ki 22:432Ch 14:3-52Ki 12:32Ki 14:4Deu 12:13-141Ki 3:2-42Ch 16:7-12 He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house. 1Ch 26:20-261Ki 15:14-151Ki 7:51 There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign. 1Ki 15:16-171Ki 15:311Ki 15:332Ch 16:1