So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month in the fifteenth year of the reign of So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
The third month - when was held the feast of Pentecost which, on this occasion, was celebrated at Jerusalem by an extraordinary sacrifice of 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep, the spoil of the Ethiopians being offered; and the assembled worshippers entered with great and holy enthusiasm into a national covenant х babªriyt (H1285), into the covenant-phraseology borrowed from the Pentateuch, "to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul;" and, at the same time, to execute with rigour the laws which made idolatry punishable with death (Exodus 22:20; Deuteronomy 17:2-5; Deuteronomy 29:12-21; Hebrews 10:28).] It is evident that there had been a covenant already in existence-the purport of which, as described, Exodus 20:1-26; Exodus 24:1-18; Deuteronomy 29:1, is here substantially repeated. The people testified unbounded satisfaction with this important religious movements; and its moral influence was seen in the promotion of piety, order, and tranquillity throughout the land.