- 驿卒就把王和众首领的信,遵着王命传遍以色列和犹大。信内说,以色列人哪,你们当转向耶和华亚伯拉罕,以撒,以色列的神,好叫他转向你们这脱离亚述王手的馀民。
- 你们不要效法你们列祖和你们的弟兄。他们干犯耶和华他们列祖的神,以致耶和华丢弃他们,使他们败亡(或作令人惊骇),正如你们所见的。
- 现在不要像你们列祖硬着颈项,只要归顺耶和华,进入他的圣所,就是永远成圣的居所。又要事奉耶和华你们的神,好使他的烈怒转离你们。
- 你们若转向耶和华,你们的弟兄和儿女必在掳掠他们的人面前蒙怜恤,得以归回这地,因为耶和华你们的神有恩典,施怜悯。你们若转向他,他必不转脸不顾你们。
- 驿卒就由这城跑到那城,传遍了以法莲,玛拿西,直到西布伦。那里的人却戏笑他们,讥诮他们。
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- 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.
- Do not be like your fathers and brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see.
- Do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; submit to the LORD. Come to the sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
- If you return to the LORD, then your brothers and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will come back to this land, for the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him."
- The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and ridiculed them.
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