2 Chronicles 15:10 (LSB)

Passage

So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 15:8 Now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he strengthened himself and took away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then renewed the altar of Yahweh which was in front of the porch of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who sojourned with them, for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 15:10 So they assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

2 Chronicles 15:11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought.

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

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "assembled", "jerusalem", "third", "month", "fifteenth", "year", and "reign". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "assembled" and "jerusalem", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin..." into verse 11's "And they sacrificed to Yahweh that day...", so "assembled" and "jerusalem" 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 "assembled" and "jerusalem" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.