2 Chronicles 14 So Abia slepte wt hys fathers, and they buryed hym in the cytie of Dauid, and Asa hys sonne raygned in hys steade. In whose dayes the lande was in quyetnes ten yere.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ So Abia slepte wt hys fathers, and they buryed hym in the cytie of Dauid, and Asa hys sonne raygned in hys steade. In whose dayes the lande was in quyetnes ten yere. ² And Asa dyd that was good & right in the eyes of the Lorde hys God: ³ for he toke awaye straunge aultars and the hyllaultars, and brake downe the ymages, and cut downe the groues, ⁴ and commaunded Iuda to seke the Lorde God of their fathers, and to do accordynge to the lawe and commaundement. ⁵ And he put awaye out all the cyties of Iuda the hylaultars and the ymages: and the kyngdome was quyet before hym. ⁶ And he buylte stronge cities in Iuda: because the land was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeares. For the Lorde had geuen hym rest. ⁷ Therfore he sayde to Iuda: let vs buyld these cityes, and make about them walles, towres, gates and barres, for the lande is yet in rest before vs, because we haue sought the Lorde oure God: we haue sought hym, and he hath geuen vs rest on euery side: & so they buylt and it prospered with them. ⁸ And Asa had an armye of men that bare shyldes and speares, out of Iuda, thre hundred thousand: and out of Beniamin that bare shyldes and drue bowes, two hundred & foure skore thousande, all these were valeaunt men. ⁹ And there came out agaynst them Zarah the black morian with an hoost of ten hondred thousande, and thre hondred charrettes, and came as farre as Maresa. ¹⁰ And Asa went out before him, and they ioyned the battayll in the valey of Zephata besyde Maresa. ¹¹ And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde hys God, & sayde: Lorde, it is no harde thinge with thou to helpe ether many, or them that haue no power: helpe vs therfore, O Lorde our God, for we trust to the, and in thy name we go agaynst thys multytude. Thou arte the Lorde oure God, and no man shall preuayle agaynst the. ¹² So the Lorde smote the blacke mores before Asa and Iuda, & the blacke mores fled. ¹³ And Asa and the people that was with him, folowed after them vnto Gerar. And the blacke mores hoost was ouerthrowen, that there was none of them lefte, but were destroyed before the Lorde and before his host. And they caryed awaye a myghtye greate praye. ¹⁴ And they smote all the cyties rounde about Gerar. For the feare of the Lorde came vpon them. And they spoyled all the cyties and there was exceadynge moche spoyle in them. ¹⁵ They smote also the tentes of catell, & caryed awaye plentye of shepe and camels, and returned to Ierusalem.