5. And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great destruction upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
6. And one Gentile destroyed the other, and one city the other; for God discomforted them with all adversity.
7. Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.
8. And when Asa heard the words and prophecy of Oded, the prophet, he was comforted and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken in Mount Ephraim and repaired the altar of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord.
9. And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon, for many of Israel had gone over to him, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
10. So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
11. And they offered unto the Lord the same day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12. And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;