13. Whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be put to death, young or old, man or woman.
14. They took an oath to the Lord in a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with rams’ horns.
15. All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their mind. They had sought Him with all their heart, and He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.
16. King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
17. The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life.
18. He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into God’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.
19. There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.