1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Chronicles 15:9

And he gathered together all Juda and Benjamin, and the strangers with them, of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Simeon: for many were come over to him out of Israel, seeing that the Lord, his God, was with him.

Simeon. This tribe was intimately connected with that of Juda, though many had revolted. Some afterwards returned, as they did from other parts, actuated either by motives of interest or of religion, 2 Paralipomenon 34:6., and 3 Kings 11:13. (Calmet)