9. Then Asa gathered all Judah and Benjamin, along with those who were living among them as immigrants from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, because many people from Israel had joined up with him when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
10. They gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s rule.
11. On that day they sacrificed to the Lord part of the loot they had taken: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
12. They made a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and all their being.
13. They agreed that anyone who refused to seek the Lord, Israel’s God, would be put to death, whether young or old, male or female.
14. They swore this to the Lord with a loud voice, shouts of joy, and blasts from trumpets and horns.
15. All Judah was delighted with the solemn pledge because they had sworn it with all their hearts. When they enthusiastically sought God, he was found by them, and the Lord gave them peace on every side.