2 Chronicles 15:9 (YLT)

Passage

and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon--for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God <FI>is<Fi> with him.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 15:7 and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

2 Chronicles 15:8 And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that <FI>is<Fi> before the porch of Jehovah,

2 Chronicles 15:9 and gathereth all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon--for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Jehovah his God <FI>is<Fi> with him.

2 Chronicles 15:10 And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

2 Chronicles 15:11 and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in--oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "gathereth", "judah", "benjamin", "sojourners", "ephraim", "manasseh", "simeon--for", and "fallen". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "gathereth" and "judah", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "And at Asa's hearing these words and..." into verse 10's "And they are gathered to Jerusalem in...", so "gathereth" and "judah" 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 "gathereth" and "judah" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.