Passage
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:2 (DRB)
Nearby Context
2 Chronicles 15:1 And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 15:3 And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law.
2 Chronicles 15:4 And when in their distress they shall return to the Lord the God of Israel, and shall seek him, they shall find him.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "went", "meet", "said", "hear", "juda", "benjamin", "lord", and "been". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "went" and "meet", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "And the spirit of God came upon..." into verse 3's "And many days shall pass in Israel...", so "went" and "meet" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "went" and "meet" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.