7But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
8And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
9And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
10So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.
11And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;
13And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.