15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 1 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 2 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him. 15:10 They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. 15:11 At that time 3 they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep. 4
1 tn Or “resident aliens.”
2 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
3 tn Or “In that day.”
4 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tso’n) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.