2 Chronicles 15: Judah’s Reformation – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | King Asa Seeks God, Spiritual Renewal, and Peace in the Land

Immerse yourself in the captivating events of 2 Chronicles 15 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Join King Asa as he seeks God and leads Judah in a reformation of worship, witness the spiritual renewal throughout the land, and discover how peace finally returns. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, let the Scriptures come alive and enrich your faith.

2 CHRONICLES 15 (NIV)

1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.

2 He went out to meet Asa
and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is
with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but
if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 For a long time Israel was without
the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.

4 But in their
distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he
was found by them.

5 In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all
the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.

6 One nation was being
crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them
with every kind of distress.

7 But as for you, be strong and do not give up,
for your work will be rewarded.”

8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the
prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land
of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of
Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of
the Lord’s temple.

9 Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim,
Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come
over to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

10 They assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of
Asa’s reign.

11 At that time they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred head of
cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought
back.

12 They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their
ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

13 All who would not seek the Lord,
the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or
woman.

14 They took an oath to the Lord with loud acclamation, with shouting
and with trumpets and horns.

15 All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they
had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by
them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.

16 King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen
mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa
cut it down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

17 Although he
did not remove the high places from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully committed to
the Lord all his life.

18 He brought into the temple of God the silver and
gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.

19 There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.