5. At that time there was no peace for anyone to go or come; rather, there were many terrors upon the inhabitants of the lands.
6. Nation crushed nation and city crushed city, for God overwhelmed them with every kind of distress.
7. But as for you, be strong and do not slack off, for there shall be a reward for what you do.”
8. When Asa heard these words and the prophecy (Oded the prophet), he was encouraged to remove the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had taken in the highlands of Ephraim, and to restore the altar of the Lord which was before the vestibule of the Lord.
9. Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, together with those of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were resident with them; for many had defected to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord, his God, was with him.
10. They gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign,
11. and sacrificed to the Lord on that day seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from the spoils they had brought.