¹The Spirit of God came on 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 me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you 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 time 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 when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

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

⁵In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

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,

⁶They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

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

⁷But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

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

⁸When 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 which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

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.

⁹He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived 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 Yahweh 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.

¹⁰So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

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

¹¹They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

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

¹²They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, 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.

¹⁴They swore to Yahweh 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.

¹⁵All 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 Yahweh gave them rest all around.

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.

¹⁶Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook 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 taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa 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.

¹⁸He brought into God’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and that 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.

¹⁹There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

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