# 2 Chronicles 14 [[2 Chronicles 13|←]] • [[2 Chronicles 15|→]] --- ### 1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. ### 2 And Asa did good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God: ### 3 For he took away the altars of the strange and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: ### 4 And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. ### 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. ### 6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the Lord had given him rest. ### 7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about walls, and towers, gates, and bars, the land yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. ### 8 And Asa had an army that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these mighty men of valour. ### 9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. ### 10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. ### 11 And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou our God; let not man prevail against thee. ### 12 So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. ### 13 And Asa and the people that with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil. ### 14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the Lord came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them. ### 15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.