2 Chronicles 15:8

4But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

5In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.

6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.

7But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”

8When 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 LORD’s altar that was before the LORD’s porch.

9He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

11They sacrificed to the LORD in that day, from the plunder which they had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.

12They entered into the covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;