1Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.stylus2 Chronicles 24:20, 2 Chronicles 20:14, 2 Chronicles 24:20, 2 Chronicles 20:14, Numbers 24:22And he went out to meet Asa, and he said to him: “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.stylusJames 4:8, James 4:8, 2 Chronicles 24:20, 2 Chronicles 24:20, 2 Chronicles 15:43Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.stylusNehemiah 8:9, Nehemiah 8:9, Leviticus 10:11, 2 Chronicles 17:8, 2 Chronicles 17:94And when, in their anguish, they will have returned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and will have sought him, they shall find him.stylusIsaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:6, Deuteronomy 4:29, Deuteronomy 4:30, Deuteronomy 4:295In that time, there will be no peace for those who depart and those who enter. Instead, there will be terror on every side, among all the inhabitants of the lands.stylusJudges 5:6, Judges 5:6, Psalms 121:8, Psalms 121:8, Matthew 24:66For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.stylusLuke 21:22, Luke 21:24, Luke 21:22, Luke 21:24, Isaiah 10:67But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”stylusJoshua 1:7, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Joshua 1:7, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Joshua 1:98And when Asa had heard these particular words, and the prophecy of the prophet Azariah, the son of Oded, he was strengthened, and he took away the idols from the entire land of Judah, and from Benjamin, and from the cities that he had seized of mount Ephraim, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the portico of the Lord.stylus2 Chronicles 13:19, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 2 Chronicles 13:19, 2 Chronicles 8:12, 2 Chronicles 4:19And he gathered together all of Judah and Benjamin, and with them the new arrivals from Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon. For many had fled to him from Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.stylus2 Chronicles 11:16, 2 Chronicles 11:16, Acts 9:31, Acts 9:31, Zechariah 8:2110And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,stylusEsther 8:9, Esther 8:911they immolated to the Lord on that day, from the best of the spoils and from the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand rams.stylus2 Chronicles 14:13, 2 Chronicles 14:15, 2 Chronicles 14:13, 2 Chronicles 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:1512And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.stylusDeuteronomy 10:12, Acts 24:14, 2 Chronicles 23:16, Deuteronomy 10:12, Acts 24:1413“But if anyone,” he said, “will not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, let him die, from the least even to the greatest, from man even to woman.”stylusExodus 22:20, Exodus 22:20, Deuteronomy 29:18, 1 Kings 18:40, Psalms 115:1314And they swore to the Lord, with a great voice, in jubilation, and with the blare of trumpets, and with the sound of horns,stylusPsalms 81:1, Psalms 81:4, Nehemiah 5:13, Nehemiah 10:29, Psalms 81:115all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.stylus2 Chronicles 14:7, 2 Chronicles 14:7, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Corinthians 1:1216Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.stylus1 Kings 15:13, 1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 15:13, 1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 15:217But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.stylus2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 14:4, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Chronicles 14:3, 2 Chronicles 14:518And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.stylus1 Chronicles 26:20, 1 Chronicles 26:26, 1 Kings 7:51, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 15:1519Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.stylus1 Kings 15:31, 2 Chronicles 16:1, 1 Kings 15:16, 1 Kings 15:17, 1 Kings 15:33