1And The Spirit from before LORD JEHOVAH abode upon Azraya, son of Azor. 2And he went out before Asa and said to him: “Hear me, Asa and all Yehuda and Benjamin: LORD JEHOVAH is with you to the eternity of eternities. If you seek him, he will be found by you, and if you will forsake him, he will forsake you. 3For many Days Israel did not serve their God in the truth, and they did not receive from their Priests and they did not listen to their law, and they were handed over into the hand of enemies. 4And when it distressed them, they prayed before LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, and they looked for him and he was found by them. 5And in these former times when we were not in awe of our God, there was no peace to him who went out neither to him who came in, because great evil had come on all the inhabitants of the land. 6And they were scattered among every nation and people, and among the towns and among the cities. 7Because we had abandoned LORD JEHOVAH our God, and we were not willing to listen to the voice of his Servants the Prophets, also he paid us the reward of our works!”

8And when Asa heard these words of Azraya, son of Azor the Prophet, he was strengthened, and he removed the images from all the land of Yehuda and of Benjamin and from the towns that he seized in the land of Aphreim, and he restored the altar of LORD JEHOVAH that was before the porch. 9And all of the house of Yehuda and the children of Benjamin gathered, and from the towns that he seized in the land of Aphreim, and the proselytes in them from those of the house of Aphreim, and from those of the house of Manassheh, and from those of the house of Shemon, because they were assembled, and multitudes came to him from those of the house of Israel when they saw that LORD JEHOVAH his God was with him. 10And they assembled in Jerusalem in the third month in the year fifteen of the kingdom of Asa. 11And they sacrificed to LORD JEHOVAH sacrifices on that day which they brought from the loot: seven hundred bulls and six thousand sheep. 12And they swore an oath that they would pray before LORD JEHOVAH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul. 13And everyone whoever would not pray before LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, would die, from the little one and unto the great one, and from the men and unto the women. 14And they swore to LORD JEHOVAH with a loud voice, and with the horns, curved and straight. 15And all the house of Yehuda rejoiced for this report that they heard, because they looked for him from all their heart, and from all their soul they prayed before him, and he was found by them, and he saved them from all the Lords of their borders.

16Also he removed Maaka the mother of Asa from his kingdom, because she made a feast for her images, and Asa cut off her images and he burned them in the valley of Qedrown. 17And they did not remove the altars from Israel, however, the heart of Asa was perfect toward the awe of LORD JEHOVAH his God all the days of his life. 18And he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things to the house of LORD JEHOVAH, silver and gold and vessels. 19And there was war in the thirtyfifth year of the kingdom of Asa.