^{8 Ref} When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

^{9 Ref} He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

^{10 Ref} So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

^{11 Ref} They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

^{12 Ref} They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

^{13 Ref} and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.