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 35:21
Context35:21 Necho 5 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 6 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 7 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 8
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 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
7 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
8 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”
