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And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

15:9 in abundance. Even though the ten tribes separated themselves from Judah and Jerusalem, and eventually went into Assyrian exile, never to return, this and other passages indicate that many of the most spiritually minded people among other tribes did return, to continue in the kingdom of the Davidic promises. No doubt all the tribes were thus represented in the Judaic heritage.


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