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2 Chronicles 15:10
So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Chronicler records this event following Jehu’s prophecy, marking the moment when the assembled tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and allied Israelites converge on Jerusalem. This occurs in the third month of the fifteenth year of King Asa’s reign.
The words — וַ/יִּקָּבְצ֥וּ (va/yi.kav.tzu) translates literally as “and they gathered together,” while יְרוּשָׁלַ֖ם (yerushalayim) denotes the specific location of the assembly.
The thread — The precise dating formula and third-month gathering motif parallel Esther 8:9, where royal scribes also act decisively in the third month. Both passages use chronological markers to anchor communal responses to divine or royal authority.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of how historical timing structures corporate religious action. Readers must account for the exact chronology before drawing theological conclusions about covenant renewal.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
Cross-references
- Esther 8:9 At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.