9 Many people had come over to Asa's side from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, and were living in his kingdom, because they had seen that the Lord was with him. Asa summoned all of them and the people of Judah and Benjamin.
10 They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year that Asa was king.
11 On that day they offered sacrifices to the Lord from the loot they had brought back: 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep.
12 They made a covenant in which they agreed to worship the Lord, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.
13 Anyone, young or old, male or female, who did not worship him was to be put to death.
14 In a loud voice they took an oath in the Lord's name that they would keep the covenant, and then they shouted and blew trumpets.
15 All the people of Judah were happy because they had made this covenant with all their heart. They took delight in worshipping the Lord, and he accepted them and gave them peace on every side.