Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.

And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.