10. Asa and these people gathered in Jerusalem. This was in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s rule.
11. At that time they sacrificed to the Lord 700 bulls and 7,000 sheep and goats. Asa’s army had taken these animals and other valuable things from their enemies.
12. Then they made an agreement. They promised to obey the Lord with their whole being. He is the God their ancestors served.
13. Anyone who refused to obey the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be killed. It did not matter if that person was important or unimportant. It did not matter if that person was a man or woman.
14. Then Asa and the people made a promise before the Lord. They shouted with a loud voice. They also blew on trumpets and sheep’s horns.
15. All the people of Judah were happy about the promise. They had promised with all their heart. They looked for God and found him. So the Lord gave them peace in all the country.
16. King Asa also removed Maacah, his mother, from being queen mother. He did this because she had made an Asherah idol, which the Lord hated. Asa cut down that idol and smashed it into pieces. Then he burned it in the Kidron Valley.
17. The places of worship to false gods were not removed from Judah. Asa desired very much to obey the Lord all his life.
18. And Asa put the holy gifts that he and his father had given into the Temple of God. These things were made of silver and gold.
19. There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s rule.