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Texts -- 2 Chronicles 15:1-8 (NET)

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15:1 God’s Spirit came upon Azariah son of Oded . 15:2 He met Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin ! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you. 15:3 For a long time Israel had no true God , or priest to instruct them, or law . 15:4 Because of their distress , they turned back to the Lord God of Israel . They sought him and he responded to them. 15:5 In those days no one could travel safely , for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands . 15:6 One nation was crushed by another , and one city by another , for God caused them to be in great turmoil . 15:7 But as for you , be strong and don’t get discouraged , for your work will be rewarded .” 15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet , he was encouraged . He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country . He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple.

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  • Asa was the first of eight kings of Judah whom the writer of Kings judged as good. Four were reformers who sought to bring the nation back to the Mosaic Covenant, and Asa was the first of these. The writer of Chronicles descr...
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  • Chronicles gives much more attention to Asa than Kings does. That is because Asa's experiences illustrated the points the Chronicler wanted to drive home to his readers.We have already seen in Rehoboam's history that obedienc...
  • The Chronicler featured Azariah's sermon (vv. 1-7), Asa's reformation (vv. 8-15), and Maacah's removal (vv. 16-19) during the middle part of Asa's reign.A message from the prophet Azariah was the spark that ignited revival in...
  • Three parts also mark this record of the later period of Asa's reign: his war with Baasha (vv. 1-6), Hanani's sermon (vv. 7-10), and the conclusion of his reign (vv. 11-14).Asa's heart was right in that he consistently loved ...
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  • Ackroyd, Peter R. I and II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah. London: SCM Press, 1973.Aharoni, Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised ed., New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1977.Albright, William F. The...
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