8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded, the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols 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 repaired the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD. 9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in large numbers, when they saw that the LORD, his God, was with him. 10So they gathered at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. 11And they sacrificed to the LORD at that time, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep, of the spoil which they had brought. 12And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul, 13That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. 14And they swore to the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, with trumpets, and with cornets. 15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire; and He was found by them; and the LORD gave them rest round about.

16And Asa, the king, also removed Maachah, his mother, from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa cut down her idol, stamped it, and burned it at the brook, Kidron. 17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. 18And he brought into the temple of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels.

19And there was no more war unto the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.