¹And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

¹Vtedy prišiel Duch Boží na Azariáša, syna Odédovho,

²And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye are with him; and if ye seek him he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him he will forsake you.

²a vyšiel proti Azovi a riekol mu: Počujte ma, Aza i celý Júda i Benjamin! Hospodin bol s vami, kým ste boli s ním a keď ho budete hľadať, dá sa vám najsť; ale ak ho opustíte, opustí vás.

³Now for a long while Israel [was] without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

³A stávalo sa už Izraelovi po mnohé dni, že bol bez pravého Boha, bez kňaza-učiteľa a bez zákona.

⁴but in their trouble they turned to Jehovah the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found of them.

⁴A keď sa vo svojej úzkosti obrátil k Hospodinovi, Bohu Izraelovmu, a keď ho hľadali, dal sa im najsť.

⁵And in those times there [was] no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in, but great disturbances were amongst all the inhabitants of the countries.

⁵Ale v takých časoch bez pravého Boha niet pokoja ani tomu, kto vychádza, ani tomu, kto vchádza, lebo veľký nepokoj, a mnoho ráz, vládne nad všetkými obyvateľmi zemí,

⁶And nation was broken against nation, and city against city; for God disturbed them with all manner of distress.

⁶a sú drtení národ národom a mesto mestom, pretože Bôh ich desí všelijakými úzkosťami.

⁷But as for you, be firm and let not your hands be weak; for there is a reward for your deeds.

⁷Preto tedy vy buďte silní, a nech nesklesnú vaše ruky zomdlejúc, lebo vaša práca má svoju mzdu.

⁸And 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 that he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.

⁸A keď počul Aza tie slová a proroctvo proroka Odéda, posilnil sa a odpratal ošklivosti z celej zeme Júdovej a Benjaminovej ako i z miest, ktoré zaujal z pohoria Efraimovho, a obnovil oltár Hospodinov, ktorý bol pred dvoranou Hospodinovou.

⁹And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they fell away to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

⁹Potom shromaždil celé pokolenie Júdovo i Benjaminovo i cudzincov, ktorí spolu bývali s nimi, z Efraima, z Manassesa a zo Simeona, lebo ich mnoho prebehlo k nemu z Izraela vidiac, že Hospodin, jeho Bôh, je s ním.

¹⁰And they assembled themselves at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

¹⁰A shromaždili sa do Jeruzalema v treťom mesiaci pätnásteho roku kráľovstva Azovho.

¹¹And they sacrificed to Jehovah in that day, of the spoil that they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

¹¹A obetovali Hospodinovi toho dňa z koristi, ktorú dohnali, sedemsto volov a sedem tisíc oviec.

¹²And they entered into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,

¹²A vošli v smluvu, že budú hľadať Hospodina, Boha svojich otcov, celým svojím srdcom a celou svojou dušou.

¹³and that whoever would not seek Jehovah the God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

¹³A že každý, kto by nehľadal Hospodina, Boha Izraelovho, zomrie, či malý či veľký, či muž či žena.

¹⁴And they swore to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

¹⁴A prisahali Hospodinovi veľkým hlasom a radostným krikom trúbiac na trúby a na poľnice.

¹⁵And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they took the oath with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them. And Jehovah gave them rest round about.

¹⁵A celý Júda sa radoval prísahe, lebo prisahali celým svojím srdcom a hľadali ho celou svojou chuťou, a dal sa im najsť. A Hospodin im dal odpočinutia zo všetkých strán.

¹⁶And also Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burned it in the valley Kidron.

¹⁶I Maachu, matku kráľa Azu, odstránil, aby nebola kráľovnou, pretože bola spravila ohavu - modlu pre háj. Ale Aza vyťal jej ohavnú modlu a rozdrvil a spálil pri potoku Kidrone.

¹⁷But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa's heart was perfect all his days.

¹⁷No, napriek tomu len neustúpily výšiny z Izraela, iba toľko, že srdce Azovo bolo celé s Hospodinom po všetky jeho dni.

¹⁸And he brought into the house of God the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

¹⁸A vniesol posvätené veci svojho otca i svoje vlastné posvätené veci do domu Božieho, striebro, zlato a nádoby.

¹⁹And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

¹⁹A nebolo vojny až do tridsiateho a piateho roku kráľovstva Azovho.