2 Chronicles 15:11 (ASV)

Passage

And they sacrificed unto Jehovah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned 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 Jehovah his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

2 Chronicles 15:11 And they sacrificed unto Jehovah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

2 Chronicles 15:13 and that whosoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sheep", "sacrificed", "jehovah", "spoil", "brought", "seven", "hundred", and "oxen". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sheep" and "sacrificed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem..." into verse 12's "And they entered into the covenant to...", so "sheep" and "sacrificed" 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 "sheep" and "sacrificed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.