2 Chronicles 15:9-18

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and the strangers who were with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to Asa from Israel in large numbers when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil they had brought—700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. They entered into a covenant (solemn agreement) to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and soul; and that whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman. They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with [jubilant] shouting, with trumpets, and with horns. All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought Him with their whole heart, and He let them find Him. So the LORD gave them rest on every side. He also removed Maacah, King Asa’s mother, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for [the goddess] Asherah. Asa cut down her idol, crushed it, and burned it at the Brook Kidron. But the high places [of pagan worship] were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was blameless all his days. He brought the things that his father [Abijah] had dedicated and those things that he had dedicated into the house of God—silver and gold and utensils.