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2 Chronicles 15:10

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So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

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ASV

So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

KJV

So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

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Commentary

6 notes on this verse
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem,.... By the order of Asa, 2Ch 15:9, in the third month; of the ecclesiastical year, the month Sivan, in which month was the day of Pentecost; and that very probably was the time of their gathering: in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa; and which seems to be the year in which he fought the Ethiopians.

This site's exposition

the strangers with them out of Ephraim

on 2 Chronicles 15:9-11

Asa gathers Judah and Benjamin and calls in strangers from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon, northern Israelites who cross into Judah because they see that the Lord his God was with him, a detail with no parallel in Kings and one the Chronicler keeps because a remnant assembly drawing outsiders in is exactly his subject. The gathering falls in the third month of Asa's fifteenth year, the season of Pentecost by the Jewish calendar, and the offering is drawn from the very spoil of the Ethiopian war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. Barnes notes the number seven is the common pattern for Israel's larger sacrifices. The northern strangers turn a national reform into an all-Israel one before a single word of covenant is spoken.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

) that they gathered themselves together, made it their own act, so forward were they to obey the king's orders. This meeting was held in the third month, probably at the feast of Pentecost, which was in that month. He and his people offered sacrifices to God, as his share of the spoil they had got,

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the third month--when was held the feast of pentecost. On this occasion, it was celebrated at Jerusalem by an extraordinary sacrifice of seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep, the spoil of the Ethiopians being offered.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The third month - At the feast of pentecost which was held on the third month.
In the third month - i. e. the month Sivan Est 8:9, corresponding with our June.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקָּבְצ֥וּand they gathered together

    vaiyikavetzuH6908 →127 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁin the month

    bachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י<the> third

    hashelishiH7992 →107 times

  • לִשְׁנַ֥תof year

    lishnatH8141 →877 times

  • חֲמֵשׁ־fif-

    chamesh-H2568 →343 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • לְמַלְכ֥וּתof [the] reign of

    lemalkhutH4438 →91 times

  • אָסָֽא׃Asa

    ʾasa'H609 →57 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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      So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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