2 Chronicles 15:1-8

1Now the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded,

2and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him, as your soul’s first necessity], He will let you find Him; but if you abandon (turn away from) Him, He will abandon (turn away from) you.

3Now for a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest, and without [God’s] law.

4But when they were in their trouble and distress they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and [in desperation earnestly] sought Him, and He let them find Him.

5In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, for great suffering came on all the inhabitants of the lands.

6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress.

7But as for you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”

8And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the repulsive idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. Then he restored the altar [of burnt offering] of the Lord which was in front of the porch [of the temple] of the Lord.