15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 2 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 3 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
1 tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.
2 tn Or “resident aliens.”
3 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”