2 Chronicles 15:6-8

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress. ⁷ But as for you, be strong; don’t give up,^[a] for your work has a reward.”^(A)

⁸ When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim.^(B) He renovated the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.^(C)