In the third month, to wit, of the sacred year, in which the feast of weeks or of pentecost fell; of which see Exo_23:16Deu_16:9.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. Asa had peace but ten years, 2Ch_14:1; after which probably there were some bickerings and skirmishes, which seem to have been composed; and after that Zerah comes against him, and is discomfited. Upon this great success many of the Israelites fall to him, and in his fifteenth year he calls this assembly.