- 1. So Abiiah slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid, and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade: in whose dayes the lande was quiet ten yeere.
- 2. And Asa did that was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
- 3. For he tooke away the altars of the strange gods and the hie places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues,
- 4. And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement.
- 5. And he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah the hie places, and the images: therefore the kingdome was quiet before him.
- 6. He built also strong cities in Iudah, because the lande was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeeres: for the Lord had giuen him rest.
- 7. Therefore he saide to Iudah, Let vs builde these cities and make walles about, and towers, gates, and barres, whiles the lande is before vs: because we haue sought the Lorde our God, we haue sought him, and he hath giuen vs rest on euery side: so they built and prospered.
- 8. And Asa had an armie of Iudah that bare shieldes and speares, three hundreth thousande, and of Beniamin that bare shieldes and drewe bowes, two hundreth and foure score thousande: all these were valiant men.
- 9. And there came out against them Zerah of Ethiopia with an hoste of ten hundreth thousande, and three hundreth charets, and came vnto Mareshah.
- 10. Then Asa went out before him, and they set the battell in aray in the valley of Zephathah beside Mareshah.
- 11. And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde his God, and saide, Lord, it is nothing with thee to helpe with many, or with no power: helpe vs, O Lorde our God: for we rest on thee, and in thy Name are we come against this multitude: O Lorde, thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee.
- 12. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.
- 13. And Asa and the people that was with him, pursued them vnto Gerar; the Ethiopians hoste was ouerthrowen, so that there was no life in them: for they were destroyed before the Lorde and before his hoste: and they caryed away a mightie great spoyle.
- 14. And they smote all the cities rounde about Gerar: for the feare of the Lorde came vpon them, and they spoyled all the cities, for there was exceeding much spoyle in them.
- 15. Yea, and they smote the tents of cattel, and carried away plentie of sheepe and camels, and returned to Ierusalem.
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