2 Chronicles 30:6

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 

2Ki 15:19,29; 1Ch 5:26; 2Ch 28:20; Es 8:14; Job 9:25; Isa 1:9; Isa 6:13; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 4:1; Jer 51:31; La 5:21; Eze 33:11; Ho 14:1; Joe 2:12-14; Jas 4:8

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.”