23_295S the Reign of ASA, King of Judah

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LESSON 295 Senior Course

MEMORY VERSE: The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found ofyou; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you (II Chronicles 15:2).

BIBLE TEXT in King James Version BIBLE REFERENCES:

2 Chronicles 14:1-151 So Abijah slept with his fathers,

and they buried him in the city ofDavid: and Asa his son reigned inhis stead. In his days the land wasquiet ten years.2And Asa did that which wasgoodand right in the eyes of the LORDhis God:3 For he took away the altars ofthe strange gods, and the highplaces, and brake down theimages, and cut down the groves:4

And commanded Judah to seekthe LORD God of their fathers, andto do the law and thecommandment.5Also he took away out of all thecities of Judah the high places andthe images: and the kingdom wasquiet before him.6And he built fenced cities inJudah: for the land had rest, andhe had no war in those years;

because the LORD had given himrest.7 Therefore he said unto Judah,Let us build these cities, and makeabout themwalls, and towers,gates, and bars, whilethe land isyet before us; because we havesought the LORD our God, wehave sought him, and he hathgiven us rest on every side. Sothey built and prospered.8And Asa had an army of menthat bare targets and spears, outof Judah three hundred thousand;and out of Benjamin, that bareshields and drew bows, twohundred and fourscore thousand:all these weremighty men of

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8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,

Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.9 Ye arecursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, eventhis whole nation.10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there maybe meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith

the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows ofheaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shallnot beroomenough to receive it.11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and heshall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall

your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saiththe LORD of hosts.12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a

delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Deuteronomy 28:1-141 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligentlyunto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe andto doall his commandments which I command thee this day,that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above allnations of the earth:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake

thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thyGod.3 Blessed shaltthou bein the city, and blessed shaltthoubein the field.4 Blessed shall bethe fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thyground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine,

and the flocks of thy sheep.5 Blessed shall bethy basket and thy store.6 Blessed shaltthou bewhen thou comest in, and blessedshaltthou bewhen thou goest out.7The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against

thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come outagainst thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.8The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thystorehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto;and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy

God giveth thee.9The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto

himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep thecommandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in hisways.10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art calledby the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in thefruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the


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valour.9And there came out against themZerah the Ethiopian with an hostof a thousand thousand, and threehundred chariots; and came untoMareshah.10 Then Asa went out against him,and they set the battle in array inthe valley of Zephathah at

Mareshah.11And Asa cried unto the LORD hisGod, and said, LORD, it isnothingwith thee to help, whether withmany, or with them that have nopower: help us, O LORD our God;for we rest on thee, and in thyname we go against thismultitude. O LORD, thou artourGod; let not man prevail againstthee.

12 So the LORD smote theEthiopians before Asa, and beforeJudah; and the Ethiopians fled.13And Asa and the people thatwerewith him pursued them untoGerar: and the Ethiopians wereoverthrown, that they could notrecover themselves; for they weredestroyed before the LORD, andbefore his host; and they carriedaway very much spoil.14

And they smote all the citiesround about Gerar; for the fear ofthe LORD came upon them: andthey spoiled all the cities; for therewas exceeding much spoil in them.15 They smote also the tents ofcattle, and carried away sheep andcamels in abundance, andreturned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 15:1-191

And the Spirit of God came uponAzariah the son of Oded:2And he went out to meet Asa,and said unto him, Hear ye me,

Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin;The LORD iswith you, while ye bewith him; and if ye seek him, he

fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto

thy fathers to give thee.12The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the

heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and tobless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend untomany nations, and thou shalt not borrow.13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail;and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be

beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments ofthe LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, toobserve and to do them:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which

I command thee this day, tothe right hand, or tothe left, togo after other gods to serve them.

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2 Corinthians 6:1414 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: forwhat fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?and what communion hath light with darkness?

2 Corinthians 6:17-1817 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye

separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing;and I will receive you,18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons

and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.Psalm 118:8

8 It isbetter to trust in the LORD than to put confidence inman.

Psalm 118:99 It isbetter to trust in the LORD than to put confidence inprinces.

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16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: amighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Psalm 146:33 Put not your trust in princes, norin the son of man, inwhom there isno help.

Isaiah 31:1

1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay onhorses, and trust in chariots, because they aremany; andin horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look

not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

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20 For what gloryis it, if, when ye be buffeted for yourfaults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well,

and sufferfor it, ye take it patiently, this isacceptable withGod.

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5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed bethe man that trusteth inman, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departethfrom the LORD.6

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall notsee when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched

places in the wilderness, ina salt land and not inhabited.7 Blessed isthe man that trusteth in the LORD, and whosehope the LORD is.8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and thatspreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see

when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shallnot be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease

from yielding fruit.


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will be found of you; but if yeforsake him, he will forsake you.3 Now for a long season Israelhath beenwithout the true God,and without a teaching priest, andwithout law.4 But when they in their trouble didturn unto the LORD God of Israel,and sought him, he was found of

them.5And in those times there wasnopeace to him that went out, nor tohim that came in, but greatvexations wereupon all theinhabitants of the countries.6And nation was destroyed ofnation, and city of city: for God didvex them with all adversity.7 Be ye strong therefore, and letnot your hands be weak: for your

work shall be rewarded.8And when Asa heard thesewords, and the prophecy of Odedthe prophet, he took courage, andput away the abominable idols outof all the land of Judah andBenjamin, and out of the citieswhich he had taken from mountEphraim, and renewed the altar ofthe LORD, that wasbefore theporch of the LORD.9

And he gathered all Judah andBenjamin, and the strangers withthem out of Ephraim andManasseh, and out of Simeon: forthey fell to him out of Israel inabundance, when they saw thatthe LORD his God waswith him.10 So they gathered themselvestogether at Jerusalem in the thirdmonth, in the fifteenth year of thereign of Asa.11

And they offered unto the LORDthe same time, of the spoil whichthey had brought, seven hundredoxen and seven thousand sheep.12And they entered into acovenant to seek the LORD God oftheir fathers with all their heartand with all their soul;

Job 13:1515Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I willmaintain mine own ways before him.

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13 When I shall say to the righteous, thathe shall surelylive; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commitiniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered;but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for

it.

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Isaiah 53:44 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:

yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and

afflicted.

Isaiah 53:55 But he waswounded for our transgressions, he wasbruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peacewasupon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

22.. TThhee eellddeerrss aarree ttoo bbee ccaalllleedd,,James 5:13-15

13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry?

let him sing psalms.14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of thechurch; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil

in the name of the Lord:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lordshall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, theyshall be forgiven him.

Acts 19:11-1211 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:12 So that from his body were brought unto the sickhandkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from

them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

33.. HHeeaalliinngg iiss pprroommiisseedd uuss,,Mark 16:18

18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadlything, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the

sick, and they shall recover.

NOTES:

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God, where isthe garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to

pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meeta company of prophets coming down from the high place with a

psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; andthey shall prophesy: 1 Kings 3:4 4 And the king went to Gibeon to

sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand

burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar)) TThhee hhiigghh

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