10. In the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's rule, they all met in Jerusalem.
11. That same day, they took seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats from what they had brought back from Gerar and sacrificed them as offerings to the Lord.
12. They made a solemn promise to faithfully worship the Lord God their ancestors had worshipped,
13. and to put to death anyone who refused to obey him.
14. The crowd solemnly agreed to keep their promise to the Lord, then they celebrated by shouting and blowing trumpets and horns.
15. Everyone was happy because they had made this solemn promise, and in return, the Lord blessed them with peace from all their enemies.
16. Asa's grandmother Maacah had made a disgusting idol of the goddess Asherah, so he cut it down, crushed it, and burnt it in Kidron Valley. Then he removed Maacah from her position as queen mother.
17. As long as Asa lived, he was faithful to the Lord, even though he did not destroy the local shrines in Israel.
18. He placed in the temple all the silver and gold objects that he and his father had dedicated to God.
19. There was peace in Judah until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's rule.