⁹ Then Asa gathered all the people from Judah and Benjamin and from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were living in Judah. Many people ·came [defected; deserted] to Asa even from Israel, ·because [when] they saw that the Lord, Asa’s God, was with him.

¹⁰ Asa and these people ·gathered [assembled] in Jerusalem in the third month [^Clate spring] of the fifteenth year of Asa’s ·rule [reign]. ¹¹ ·At that time [^LOn that day] they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred ·bulls [oxen] and seven thousand sheep and goats from the ·valuable things Asa’s army had taken from their enemies [plunder/spoil they had brought back].