9. Then Asa gathered all the people from Judah and Benjamin and the people from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had moved from the country of Israel to live in the country of Judah. A great many of these people came to Judah because they saw that the Lord, Asa’s God, was with him.
10. Asa and these people gathered together in Jerusalem on the third month in the 15th year of Asa’s rule.
11. At that time they sacrificed 700 bulls and 7000 sheep and goats to the Lord. Asa’s army had taken the animals and other valuable things from their enemies.
12. Then they made an agreement to serve the Lord God with all their heart and with all their soul. He is the God their ancestors served.
13. Anyone who refused to serve the Lord God was to be killed. It did not matter if that person was important or not or if that person was a man or woman.
14. Then Asa and the people made an oath to the Lord. They shouted it out loudly and blew their trumpets and rams’ horns.