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King Asa Put Away the Abominable Idols Out of All the Land
of Judah
2 Chronicles 15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me,
Asa, and
all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and
if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will
forsake you.
3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God,
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without a teaching priest, and without law.
4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel,
and sought him, he was found of them.
5 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him
that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the
countries.
6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex
them with all adversity.
7 Be ye strong therefore, and
let not your hands be weak: for your work
shall be rewarded.
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Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours;
and their works do follow them.
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Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which is the book of life: and
the dead
were judged out of those things which were written in the books,
according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and
hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works.
8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet,
he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land
of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from
mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord, that was before the
porch of the Lord.
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Asa put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah
9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them
out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out
of Israel in abundance, 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 time, 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;
13 That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to
death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
14 And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting,
and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their
heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them:
and the Lord gave them rest round about.
16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he
removed
her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and
Asa
cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless
the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had
dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and
vessels.
19 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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