Discovery Box2 Chronicles 30:6 
Context30:6 Messengers 1 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read: 2 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 3 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 4
2 Chronicles 34:30
Context34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 36:23
Context36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem 5 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 6
1 tn Heb “the runners.”
2 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
3 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
4 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
6 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the
