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Messengers[a] delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read:[b] “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return[c] to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “the runners.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
  4. 2 Chronicles 30:6 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

At the king’s command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read:

“People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

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