12. And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.
13. "But if anyone," he said, "will not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, let him die, from the least even to the greatest, from man even to woman."
14. And they swore to the Lord, with a great voice, in jubilation, and with the blare of trumpets, and with the sound of horns,
15. all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.
16. Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.
17. But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.
18. And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.
19. Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.