2 Chronicles 15:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible
14 And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn unto the Lord with all their heart, and sought him with a whole desire, and he was [a]found of them. And the Lord gave them rest round about.
16 ¶ And King Asa deposed (A)Maachah his [b]mother from her regency, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa brake down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:15 So long as they served him aright, so long did he preserve and prosper them.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 Or grandmother: and herein he showed that he lacked zeal, for she ought to have died both by the covenant, as verse 13, and by the Law of God: but he gave place to foolish pity and would also seem after a sort to satisfy the Law.
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