RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

DIVRE HAYAMIM BET – SECOND CHRONICLES
hundred thousand chosen men.
18 So the children of Yisrael were humbled at that time,
and the children of Yahudah prevailed, because they
relied upon vuvh Elohim of their ahvot. 4308
19 And Aviyah pursued after Yahravam, and took cities
from him, Beth-El with its towns, and Yeshnah with its
towns, and Ephron with its towns.
20 Neither did Yahravam recover his strength again in
the days of Aviyah: and vuvh struck him, and he died.
21 But Aviyah grew mighty, and married fourteen
wives, and begat twenty-two sons, and sixteen
daughters.
22 And the rest of the acts of Aviyah, and his ways, and
his sayings, are written in the Scroll of the navi Iddo. 4309
So Aviyah slept with his ahvot, and they buried
him in the city of Dawid: and Asa his son reigned in his
place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
2 And Asa did that which was tov and right in the eyes
of vuvh his Elohim:
3 For he took away the altars of the strange elohim, and
the idol temples, and broke down the images, and cut
down the Asherim:
4 And commanded Yahudah to seek vuvh Elohim of
their ahvot, and to do the Torah and the mishpatim.
5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Yahudah the
idol temples and the images: and the malchut was quiet
before him.
6 And he built fortified cities in Yahudah: for the land
had rest, and he had no war in those years; because vuvh
had given him rest.
7 Therefore he said to Yahudah, Let us build these
cities, and make around them walls, and towers, gates,
and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we
have sought vuvh our Elohim, we have sought Him, and
He has given us rest on every side. So they built and
prospered.
8 And Asa had an army of men that bore shields and
spears, out of Yahudah three hundred thousand; and out
of Benyamin, that bore shields and drew bows, two
hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of
bravery.
9 And there came out against them Zerach the Ethiopian
with an army of a million men, and three hundred
mirkavot; and came to Mareshah.
10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the
battle in the Valley of Tzephathah at Mareshah.
11 And Asa cried to vuvh his Elohim, and said, vuvh, it
is nothing for You to help, whether with many, or with
them that have no power: help us, O vuvh our Elohim;
for we rest on You, and in Your Name 4310 14
we go
against this multitude. O vuvh, You are our Elohim; let
not man prevail against You.
12 So vuvh killed the Ethiopians before Asa and before
Yahudah; and the Ethiopians fled.
13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued
them to Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that
they could not recover themselves; for they were
destroyed before vuvh, and before His army; and they
carried away very much spoil.
14 And they smote all the cities all around Gerar; for the
fear of vuvh came upon them: and they plundered all the
cities; for there was very much spoil in them.
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15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away
sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to
Yahrushalayim.
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And the Ruach of Elohim came upon Azaryahu the
son of Oved:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Listen
to me, Asa, and all Yahudah and Benyamin; vuvh is
with you, while you be with Him; and if you seek Him,
He will be found of you; but if you forsake Him, He
will forsake you.
3 Now for a long season Yisrael has been without the
true Elohim, and without a teaching kohen, and without
Torah. 4311
4 But when they in their trouble did teshuvah to vuvh
Elohim of Yisrael, and sought Him, He was found of
them. 4312
5 And in those times there was no shalom to him that
went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations
were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
6 They were beaten down nation-by-nation, and city-bycity:
for Elohim did vex them with all adversity.
7 Be strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak:
for your work shall be rewarded. 4313
8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of
Oved the navi, he took courage, and put away the
abominable idols out of all the land of Yahudah and
Benyamin, and out of the cities which he had taken
from Mount Efrayim, and renewed the altar of vuvh,
that was before the porch of vuvh.
9 And he gathered all Yahudah and Benyamin, and the
gerim 4314 with them out of Efrayim and Menashsheh,
4315 and out of Shimeon: for they came over to him out
of Yisrael in abundance, when they saw that vuvh his
Elohim was with him. 4316
10 So they gathered themselves together at
Yahrushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year
of the reign of Asa.
11 And they offered to vuvh the same time, from the
spoil that they had brought, seven hundred oxen and
seven thousand sheep.
12 And they entered into a brit to seek vuvh Elohim of
their ahvot with all their lev and with all their being;
13 That whoever would not seek vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael should be put to death, whether small, or great,
whether man, or woman.
14 And they swore to vuvh with a loud voice, and with
shouting, and with shofars, and with cornets.
15 And all Yahudah had gilah at the oath: for they had
sworn with all their lev, and sought Him with their
whole desire; and He was found by them: and vuvh gave
them rest all round.
16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the
melech, he removed her from being malka, because she
had made an idol in an Asherah: and Asa cut down her
idol, and stamped it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
17 But the idol temples were not taken away out of
Yisrael: nevertheless the lev of Asa was perfect all his
days.
18 And he brought into the Bayit of Elohim the things
that his abba had dedicated, and that he himself had
dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
19 And there was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of