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three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and
fourscore thousand: all these
were
mighty men of valour.
9
And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand,
and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
10
Then Asa went out against him, and they
set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
11
And Asa cried unto the L
ORD
his
God, and said, L
ORD
,
it is
nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no
power: help us, O L
ORD
our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude.
O L
ORD
, thou
art
our God; let not man prevail against thee.
12
So the L
ORD
smote the Ethiopians
before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
13
And Asa and the people that
were
with
him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover
themselves; for they were destroyed before the L
ORD
, and before his host; and they carried away
very much spoil.
14
And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the L
ORD
came
upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
15
They
smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to
Jerusalem.
CHAPTER CHRONICLES 15
And the Spirit of God came upon PrAzariah the son of Oded:
2
And he went out to meet Asa, and
said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The L
ORD
is
with you, while ye be
with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
3
Now for a long season Israel
hath been
without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and
without law.
4
But when they in their trouble did turn unto the L
ORD
God of Israel, and sought him,
he was found of them.
5
And in those times
there was
no peace to him that went out, nor to him
that came in, but great vexations
were
upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
6
And nation was
destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex themwith all adversity.
7
Be ye strong therefore,
and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
8
And when Asa heard these
words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols
out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount
Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the L
ORD
, that
was
before the porch of the L
ORD
.
9
And he gathered
all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of
Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the L
ORD
his God
was
with him.
10
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Asa.
11
And they offered unto the L
ORD
the same time, of the spoil
which
they
had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12
And they entered into a covenant
to seek the L
ORD
God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
13
That whosoever
would not seek the L
ORD
God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man
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