2 Chronicles 15:10
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New International Version (©2011)
They assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The people gathered at Jerusalem in late spring, during the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They were gathered at 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They were gathered in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They all assembled in Jerusalem during the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

NET Bible (©2006)
They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign, they gathered in Jerusalem.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

American King James Version
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they were come to Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

Darby Bible Translation
And they assembled themselves at Jerusalem in the third month of 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

World English Bible
So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in 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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:1-19 The people make a solemn covenant with God. - The work of complete reformation appeared so difficult, that Asa had not courage to attempt it, till assured of Divine assistance and acceptance. He and his people offered sacrifices to God; thanksgiving for the favours they had received, and supplication for further favours. Prayers and praises are now our spiritual sacrifices. The people, of their own will, covenanted to seek the Lord, each for himself, with earnestness. What is religion but seeking God, inquiring after him, applying to him upon all occasions? We make nothing of our religion, if we do not make heart-work of it; God will have all the heart, or none. Our devotedness to God our Saviour, should be avowed and shown in the most solemn and public manner. What is done in hypocrisy is a mere drudgery.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - In the third month. The "Feast of Weeks" began about the sixth of this third month Sivan (June). In the fifteenth year. It has been conjectured from ch. 14:1 that Zerah the Ethiopian, or Cushite, invaded Judah in Asa's eleventh year. The present sacrificial festival, in his fifteenth year, evidently was held very shortly after the close of Asa's victory over Zerah This infers a rather longer duration of the war than is otherwise to be gathered from the face of the history. The interval, it is true, may be explained by supposing that Ass lingered long to restore the state of things where Zerah's vast host had unsettled it.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10-14. 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. The assembled worshippers entered with great and holy enthusiasm into a national covenant "to seek the Lord their God … with all their heart and with all their soul;" and, at the same time, to execute with rigor the laws which made idolatry punishable with death (2Ch 15:13; De 17:2-5; Heb 10:28). The people testified unbounded satisfaction with this important religious movement, and its moral influence was seen in the promotion of piety, order, and tranquillity throughout the land.

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Asa's Reforms
8And 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. 9And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. 10So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. …

2 Chronicles 15:9 Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
2 Chronicles 15:11 At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.