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Now when Asa heard these words and the ^[d]prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from ^(k)the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. ^(l)He then restored the altar of the Lord which was in front of the porch of the Lord .