2 Chronicles · Chapter 15

[ edit] Azarias forſoþe, þe ſone of Obed, þe ſpirite of God maad in hym, wente out in to aȝein comynge of Aza; and ſeide to hym, Heere ȝe me, Aza and al Juda and Beniamyn; þe Lord wiþ ȝou, for ȝe weren wiþ hym; ȝif ȝe ſechen hym, ȝe ſchul fynden; ȝif forſoþe ȝe forſaken hym, he ſchal forſaken ȝou. Forſoþe þer ſchul paſſen many days in Yrael wiþ oute verre God, and wiþ oute preſt, and wiþ out doctour, and wiþ oute lawe. And whanne þei weren turned aȝein in þeir anguyſch, and ſchul crien to þe Lord God of Yrael, and ſechen hym, þei ſchul fynden hym. In þat tyme þer ſchal not ben peſe of goyng out and commynge in, bot feris on al ſijde in alle dwellers of londis.

Forſoþe folc ſchal fiȝten aȝeinus folc, and cyte aȝeinus cytee, for þe Lord ſchal diſtourblen hem in al anguyſch; ȝe forſoþe takiþ comfort, and ȝoure hondis ben not febled; forſoþe meed ſchal ben to ȝoure werk. Þe whiche þing whann Aza hadde herd, þat is, þe wordis and þe prophecie of Azarie, ſone of Obed, prophete, is comfortid, and toke aweie alle þe mawmetis of al þe lond of Juda and of Beniamyn, and of þe cytees þat he hadd taken of þe hill of Effraym. And he halowede an auter of þe Lord, þat was before þe ȝate hous of þe hous of þe Lord.

And he gadride al Juda and Beniamyn, and þe comlyngis wiþ hem of Effraym, and of Manaſſe, and of Symeon; forſoþe many hadde flowen to hym of Yſrael, ſeeynge þat þe Lord God of hym was wiþ hym. And whanne þei weren commen in to Jeruſalem, þe þrid moneþ, þe fiftenþe ȝeer of þe regne of Aza, þei offreden to þe Lord in þat day, and of þe hondis and pray, þat þei hadden brouȝt, oxen ſeuen hundriþ, and weþers ſeuen þouſand. And he wente in of maner to ſtrengþen þe peſe couenaunt, þat þei ſchulden ſeche þe Lord God of þeir fadirs in al herte, and in al þeir ſoule. Ȝif any forſoþe ſechiþ not, he ſeiþ, þe Lord God of Yrael, be he deed, fro þe leſte vnto þe moſt, fro man vnto womman.

And þei ſworen to þe Lord wiþ a grete voice, in ioye, and in crie of trumpe, and in ſown of clariowns, alle þat weren in Jewrye, wiþ execracioun; in alle forſoþe þeir herte þei ſworen, and in alle wil þei ſouȝten hym, and founden; and þe Lord ȝaue to hem reſte by enuyroun. Bot and Maacha, þe modir of kyng Aza, he put doun of hyre anguyſchynge empyre, forþi þat ſche had maad a ſymulacre of a mans ȝeerde in þe mawmet wode; þe whiche al he diſtroyede, and in to gobetis munyſchynge, he brent in to þe ſtreem of Cedron. Forſoþe þe heeȝe þingis ben laft ſtylle in Yrael; neuer þe later þe herte of Aza was perfijt alle þe days of hym.

Þo þingis þat his fadir hadde avowed and he brouȝt in to þe hous of þe Lord, ſyluer and gold, and of veſſels dyuerſe purtenauncis; bataile forſoþe was not vnto þe þrittiþe ȝeer of þe regne of Aza.