7. But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
8. When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
9. He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
10. So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
11. They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.
12. They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
13. and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.