¹In duh Božji pride nad Azarija, sina Odedovega;

¹And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

²in pride naproti Asu ter mu reče: Poslušajte me, Asa in ves Juda in Benjamin! GOSPOD je z vami, dokler ste vi ž njim. In ko ga iščete, ga najdete; ako ga pa zapustite, zapusti on vas.

²and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah [is] with you -- in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

³Saj dosti dni je bil Izrael brez pravega Boga in brez duhovnika-učitelja in brez postave;

³and many days [are] to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

⁴ali ko so se v stiski svoji obrnili h GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu, in ga iskali, so ga našli.

⁴and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,

⁵In v tistih časih ni bilo miru njemu, ki je odhajal, ne njemu, ki je prihajal, temuč velika nemirnost je vladala nad vsemi prebivalci dežel.

⁵and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,

⁶In narod se je ljuto bojeval z narodom in mesto z mestom, kajti Bog jih je vznemirjal z vsakovrstno bridkostjo.

⁶and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

⁷A vi bodite močni, in naj vam ne omagajo roke! zakaj delo vaše prejme plačilo.

⁷and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

⁸In ko je slišal Asa te besede in prorokovanje sinu Odedovega, proroka, se ohrabri in odpravi gnusobe iz vse dežele Judove in Benjaminove in iz mest, ki jih je dobil na Efraimskem gorovju, ter obnovi oltar GOSPODOV, ki je stal pred vežo GOSPODOVO.

⁸And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that [is] before the porch of Jehovah,

⁹In skliče ves rod Judov in Benjaminov in tiste, ki so tujčevali pri njih iz Efraima in Manaseja in iz Simeona, kajti veliko jih je iz Izraela bilo prestopilo k njemu, ko so videli, da je bil ž njim GOSPOD, njegov Bog.

⁹and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon -- for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God [is] with him.

¹⁰In zbero se v Jeruzalemu tretji mesec v petnajstem letu kraljevanja Asovega.

¹⁰And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

¹¹In darovali so GOSPODU tisti dan iz plena, ki so ga bili pripeljali, sedemsto volov in sedem tisoč ovac.

¹¹and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in -- oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,

¹²In so stopili v zavezo, da bodo iskali GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih, iz vsega srca in iz vse duše svoje,

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

¹³ter da mora umreti, kdorkoli bi ne iskal GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega, bodisi majhen ali velik, bodisi mož ali žena.

¹³and every one who doth not seek for Jehovah, God of Israel, is put to death, from small unto great, from man unto woman.

¹⁴In prisegli so GOSPODU z močnim glasom in z ukanjem ob donenju trobent in rogov.

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

¹⁵In ves Juda je bil vesel te prisege, zakaj prisegli so iz vsega srca svojega in iskali GOSPODA z vso voljo svojo, ter so ga našli; in GOSPOD jim je dal pokoj vseokoli.

¹⁵and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.

¹⁶In kralj Asa je tudi odstavil Maako, mater svojo, da ne bo v kraljičji časti, ker je bila naredila ostudno podobo Ašeri. In Asa je posekal njeno ostudno podobo in jo stolkel v prah ter sežgal pri potoku Kidronu.

¹⁶And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king -- he hath removed her from [being] mistress, in that she hath made for a shrine a horrible thing, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and beateth [it] small, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron:

¹⁷Toda višave niso bile odpravljene iz Izraela, vendar pa je bilo srce Asovo nerazdeljeno vse njegove žive dni.

¹⁷yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.

¹⁸In ponesel je v hišo Božjo, kar je bil posvetil oče njegov in kar je bil sam posvetil, srebro, zlato in posode.In vojne ni bilo nobene do petintridesetega leta Asovega vladanja.

¹⁸And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels.

¹⁹In vojne ni bilo nobene do petintridesetega leta Asovega vladanja.

¹⁹And war hath not been till the thirty and fifth year of the reign of Asa.