2 Chronicles 15
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And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD 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.

to meet Asa [heb] before Asa
Hear ye me

2 Chronicles 13:4 And Abijah stood up on mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, …

2 Chronicles 20:15,20 And he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, …

Judges 9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of …

Psalm 49:1,2 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…

Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing …

Matthew 13:9 Who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Revelation 2:7,11,29 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches; …

Revelation 3:6,13,22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches…

The Lord

2 Chronicles 13:12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests …

2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help …

Deuteronomy 20:1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and …

James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …

if ye seek him

2 Chronicles 15:4,15 But when they in their trouble did turn to the LORD God of Israel, …

2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …

Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …

if ye forsake

2 Chronicles 12:1-3 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and …

2 Chronicles 24:20 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …

2 Kings 21:14 And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them …

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

Romans 11:1,2 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

a long

1 Kings 12:28-33 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, …

true God

Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …

1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had to you…

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, …

a teaching

2 Chronicles 17:8,9 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and …

Leviticus 10:11 And that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which …

Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …

Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, …

Ezekiel 44:21-23 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court…

Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach …

Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …

Matthew 2:4,5 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the …

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …

without law

Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without …

Romans 7:8,9 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner …

1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God…

But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
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.
And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

ye strong

Joshua 1:7,9 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do …

1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, …

Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your …

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…

Daniel 10:19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be to you, be strong, …

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

your work

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, …

Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of …

Psalm 19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there …

Psalm 58:11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: …

Matthew 5:12,46 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: …

Matthew 6:1,4,6,18 Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: …

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive …

Luke 6:35 But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing …

Romans 4:4,5 Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt…

1 Corinthians 3:8,14 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall …

1 Corinthians 9:17,18 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against …

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always …

Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: …

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, …

Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have worked, …

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 LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

Oded

2 Chronicles 15:1 And the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:

took courage

2 Chronicles 19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters …

Isaiah 44:14 He hews him down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which …

Acts 28:15 And from there, when the brothers heard of us, they came to meet …

abominable idols [heb] abominations

Leviticus 18:30 Therefore shall you keep my ordinance, that you commit not any one …

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination …

1 Kings 11:5,7 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and …

2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the …

Isaiah 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which …

Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; …

Ezekiel 8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and …

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will …

Revelation 17:4,5 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked …

the cities

2 Chronicles 13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel …

the altar of the Lord

2 Chronicles 4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, …

2 Chronicles 8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of …

2 Chronicles 29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed …

2 Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, …

2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, …

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 LORD his God was with him.
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
And 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 of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

rejoiced

2 Chronicles 23:16-21 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, …

2 Chronicles 29:10,36 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, …

Deuteronomy 26:11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God …

Nehemiah 8:9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, …

Psalm 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, …

Psalm 119:111 Your testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are …

Proverbs 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …

sworn

Psalm 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.

sought him

2 Chronicles 15:2,4,12 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Isaiah 26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; …

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said …

Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and …

and he was

2 Chronicles 15:4 But when they in their trouble did turn to the LORD God of Israel, …

the Lord

2 Chronicles 15:6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did …

Joshua 23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest …

Job 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides …

And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

Maachah

1 Kings 15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, …

the mother. that is, grandmother

1 Kings 15:2,10 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was Maachah, …

he removed

2 Chronicles 14:3-5 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, …

Exodus 32:27,28 And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every …

Deuteronomy 13:6-8 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, …

Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither …

Zechariah 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then …

Mark 3:21,31-35 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: …

2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have …

idol [heb] horror
cut down

2 Chronicles 14:3-5 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, …

2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten …

Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, …

Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …

Deuteronomy 7:5,25,26 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, …

Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with …

1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was …

2 Kings 23:6,12,15 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without …

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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