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THE MESSAGE

2 Chronicles 15:10

They all arrived in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign for a great assembly of worship. From their earlier plunder they offered sacrifices of seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep for the worship. Then they bound themselves in a covenant to seek God , the God of their fathers, wholeheartedly, holding nothing back. And they agreed that anyone who refused to seek God , the God of Israel, should be killed, no matter who it was, young or old, man or woman. They shouted out their promise to God , a joyful sound accompanied with blasts from trumpets and rams' horns. The whole country felt good about the covenant promise—they had given their promise joyfully from the heart. Anticipating the best, they had sought God—and he showed up, ready to be found. God gave them peace within and without—a most peaceable kingdom!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Iconoclasm;   Month;   Prayer;   Preaching;   Repentance;   Revivals;   Simeon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Azariah;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Chronicles, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Asa;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Asa;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ephraim;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They were gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
Hebrew Names Version
So they gathered themselves together at Yerushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
King James Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
English Standard Version
They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
New Century Version
Asa and these people gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's rule.
New English Translation
They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
Amplified Bible
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
New American Standard Bible
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
World English Bible
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So they assembled to Ierusalem in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yere of the reigne of Asa.
Legacy Standard Bible
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
Berean Standard Bible
So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
Contemporary English Version
In the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's rule, they all met in Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
They assembled together at Yerushalayim in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
Darby Translation
And they assembled themselves at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Easy-to-Read Version
Asa and these people gathered together in Jerusalem on the third month in the 15th year of Asa's rule.
George Lamsa Translation
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Good News Translation
They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year that Asa was king.
Lexham English Bible
And they were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Literal Translation
And they were gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they resorted vnto Ierusalem in the thirde moneth of the fyftenth yeare of the reigne of Asa,
American Standard Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Bible in Basic English
So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So they assembled together at Hierusale the third moneth, the fifteenth yere of the raigne of Asa.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
King James Version (1611)
So they gathered themselues together at Ierusalem, in the third moneth, in the fifteenth yeere of the reigne of Asa.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
English Revised Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei hadden comun in to Jerusalem, in the thridde monethe, in the fiftenthe yeer of the rewme of Asa,
Update Bible Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Webster's Bible Translation
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
New King James Version
So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
New Living Translation
The people gathered at Jerusalem in late spring, during the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
New Life Bible
So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's rule.
New Revised Standard
They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem, in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
Revised Standard Version
They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Young's Literal Translation
And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

Contextual Overview

8Asa heard the prophecy of Azariah son of Obed, took a deep breath, then rolled up his sleeves, and went to work: He cleaned out the obscene and polluting sacred shrines from the whole country of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim. He spruced up the Altar of God that was in front of The Temple porch. Then he called an assembly for all Judah and Benjamin, including those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living there at the time (for many from Israel had left their homes and joined forces with Asa when they saw that God was on his side). 10They all arrived in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign for a great assembly of worship. From their earlier plunder they offered sacrifices of seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep for the worship. Then they bound themselves in a covenant to seek God , the God of their fathers, wholeheartedly, holding nothing back. And they agreed that anyone who refused to seek God , the God of Israel, should be killed, no matter who it was, young or old, man or woman. They shouted out their promise to God , a joyful sound accompanied with blasts from trumpets and rams' horns. The whole country felt good about the covenant promise—they had given their promise joyfully from the heart. Anticipating the best, they had sought God—and he showed up, ready to be found. God gave them peace within and without—a most peaceable kingdom! 16In his cleanup of the country, Asa went so far as to remove his mother, Queen Maacah, from her throne because she had built a shockingly obscene image of the sex goddess Asherah. Asa tore it down, smashed it, and burned it up in the Kidron Valley. Unfortunately he didn't get rid of the local sex-and-religion shrines. But he was well-intentioned—his heart was in the right place, loyal to God . All the gold and silver vessels and artifacts that he and his father had consecrated for holy use he installed in The Temple of God. There wasn't a trace of war up to the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the third month: Esther 8:9

Cross-References

Genesis 15:17
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem,.... By the order of Asa, 2 Chronicles 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the third month - i. e. the month Sivan Esther 8:9, corresponding with our June.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 15:10. The third month — At the feast of pentecost which was held on the third month.


 
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