2 Chronicles 15:9

9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God [was] with him.

2 Chronicles 15:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 15:9

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with
them
The proselytes of the gate:

out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon:
out of all the places in those tribes that had come off to him, or had been taken by him; for otherwise these belonged to the ten tribes under the government of Jeroboam, and his successors, and the next clause explains it:

for they fell to him out of Israel abundance, when they saw that the
Lord his God was with him;
as was clear by the victory he gave him over the Ethiopians; after that time many in the above tribes came over to him; the Targum is,

``when they saw the Word of the Lord his God was his help.''

2 Chronicles 15:9 In-Context

7 But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

8 And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh.

9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God [was] with him.

10 And they were gathered [at] Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.