When Asa heard these words and this prophecy from the prophet Oded [his son Azariah], he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He reestablished the altar of the Lord that stood before the Lord's tabernacle.
[It was Azariah, the son of Oded, who spoke the prophecy, see . The fact that the Hebrew text has Oded here may be a patronymic, where the father's name is used for the son. This spelling is not unusual. Jesus is called "the son of David" in and Moses is used for "the sons of Moses," see . The Greek translation Septuagint replaces Oded with Azariah, the Latin translation Vulgate and the Syrian translation add and translate "Azariah, son of Oded".]
But there was a prophet of the Lord named Oded. He went out to meet the army when it came to Samaria and said to them, "Behold, in his anger against Judah, the Lord (Yahweh), the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand, but you have killed them with a fury that has reached heaven.
